Cultivating Autumnal Magic for Writers

Cultivating Autumnal Magic for Writers

 

It may not be autumn where you are, or it may still feel like summer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use the magic of the autumn season in your writing! Even in Florida, where I grew up, the seasons didn’t change in the typical sense. (Unless you count hurricane season, that is!) Yet I was still able to find some autumnal magic in the tropical landscape of my childhood. Halloween, for me, will always be linked to the scent of the night-blooming cereus (it smells how you think candy corn will taste) and the orange-hued streetlights of my childhood trick-or-treating days made the season feel appropriately magical…and spooky!

 

Read on for ways to use the magic of autumn to harvest the rewards of your own creativity…

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