Terri Windling

@terriwindling

Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor, Devon, UK

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Terri Windling@terriwindling· 27d

I'm revisiting an old favourite this week.

The image depicts the original hardcover edition of The Summer Isles: A Voyage of Imagination by Philip Marsden, photographed at the edge of a Dartmoor stream on a hot summer day. This is my third (or fourth?) reading of this marvelous book and I'm carried away by it every time.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· 29d

"True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.” - Robin Hobb (The Mad Ship)

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, on a sun-dappled path winding through the hills. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 13

Good morning, Charles! The heat is unusually fierce right now, and the countryside is parched without rain. I've been taking my work down to the river so that Lottie and I can cool off.

Photograph: A small brown dog (part spaniel, part otter) swims in the golden water of the River Teign. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 10

I never stopped reading, but I think that's largely because I'm still clinging stubbornly to a 20th century life: I don't own a mobile phone. I use a computer (obviously), but it's so much easier to regulate social media use when it's not sitting in your pocket. And I agree, Odell's book is good!

Photograph: Jenny Odell's book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (published in 2019), sitting on a Burne-Jones tote bag with a cup of coffee beside it.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 10

"To me, fantasy has the emotional strength of a dream, it works directly on our nerve endings, touching heights and depths not always accessible through realism. In fantasy, my concern is how we learn to be real human beings. It's a continuing process." - Lloyd Alexander Have a good weekend.

Photograph: a mossy old tree not far from home, in the shimmering heat of a Dartmoor summer. (Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 10

Good morning from me and Lottie, Charles. We're in the middle of another heat wave here, so Lottie prefers to spend as much time in the river as possible....

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, wades into the River Teign where it flows past our small village on Dartmoor (Devon, UK). When she is thoroughly wet and all cooled down, her nose turns pink.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 8

Good morning from me and Lottie, Charles! I've been away from the office/studio, helping a family member through medical issues. It's good to be back again.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the greenery of a Dartmoor summer.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jul 8

Lottie says Happy Wednesday to Willow! It's hot here on Dartmoor too, and she's spending as much time as she can in the River Teign.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the River Teign below Castle Drogo. (Drewsteignton, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 30

“Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.” - Jane Yolen (from Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood)

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the shimmering light and shadow of our courtyard. The statue behind her is by Wendy Froud.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 29

Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles!

Photograph: a Dartmoor pony foal and mama from one of the semi-wild pony herds who roam across the moor and around our rural village. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 27

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.” - Edward Abbey (from The Journey Home)  Have a good weekend, everyone. Back on Monday.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the pathway up our hillside garden through a tangle of wildflowers.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 26

I've been supporting family members through some hard things this week, but this little smile keeps me going. Her endless delight in simply being alive reminds me to stop and notice the moments of joy in even the toughest of days.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown Sprocker spaniell, grinning up from a woodland path on the hill behind our house.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 26

Goodmorning from Dartmoor, Charles, where it's been very, very hot this week. Lottie and I hope you have a good weekend!

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, amid the foxgloves growing by a woodland path. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 21

Happy Father's Day to all the good fathers out there, and also to all the men who care for the young people and animals in their lives in a good way. I'm also thinking of friends today who have lost their fathers, had difficult fathers, or never had a father. May the day pass gently.

Photograph: My husband Howard, sitting in a chair and cradling our spaniel, Lottie, when she was a pup. Their sweet relationship is much the same today.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 20

"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air....Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary." - Jay Griffiths Have a good weekend. Lottie and I will be back on Monday.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the vivid summertime green of our hillside. She keeps me rooted to the wild every day. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 19

Good morning from me and Lottie, Charles. We wish you a good weekend too.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, among the herb pots.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 18

Happy 11th Birthday to @folklorethursday.bsky.social. Thank you for all the stories.

Image: A sketch of mine of two little people with their animal companion and a collection of fairy tale books. Written below are the words: "Tell us a story," they insisted. "A new one. Or an old one."

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 18

"Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths." - Jane Yolen (from Briar Rose)

Photograph: The original edition of Briar Rose (in The Fairy Tale Series, 1992), and two subsequent editions, all published by Tor Books.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 18

"...That makes little sense. Unless the image, character, or situation borrowed speaks to the author’s condition, as cryptically and oracularly as a dream, folklore is best left untapped." - Jane Yolen (from Touch Magic)

Photograph: Lottie,a young brown-and-white spaniel. Woodland companion.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 18

"...But then, in a sense, there is an element of theft in all art; even the most imaginative artist borrows and reconstructs the archetypes when delving into the human heart. That is not to say that using a familiar character from folklore in the hopes of shoring up a weak narrative will work....

Photograph: Writing in the woods. The image shows two writing notebooks in bracken and brambles.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 18

"[W]hen the modern mythmaker, the writer of literary fairy tales, dares to touch the old magic and try to make it work in new ways, it must be done with the surest of touches. It is, perhaps, a kind of artistic thievery, this stealing of old characters, settings, the accoutrements of magic....

Photograph: the expanded edition of Jane Yolen's excellent, influential book Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood, surrounded by woodland ivy.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 17

Lottie at the beginning of playing in the leat vs. Lottie at the end of playing in the leat.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, standing in the water of a narrow leat waiting for me to throw her rubber stick. Splashing through water while playing Fetch is one of her favourite things. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Photograph: Lottie, a very wet brown spaniel, after a vigorous game of Fetch. She's hoping for another few throws. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

Photograph: Lottie with her rubber stick, begging me throw it just One More Time. How could anyone resist that face?

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 16

"Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and...the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be." - Lloyd Alexander

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, amid the daisies and foxgloves of our rather wild and overgrown garden. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 15

Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles! It's a beautiful day here.

Photograph: Our small rural village on Dartmoor, tucked into farmland at the edge of the moor. (Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 12

"Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level." - Jane Yolen Lottie and I wish you a good weekend. I'll be back in the studio, and back online, on Monday.

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, in the courtyard behind our kitchen. The statue is by Wendy Froud.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 12

Lottie and I wish you the very same, Charles.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown-and-white spaniel, in a field close to our Dartmoor village. In the distance, the blue-grey slopes of the open moor rise over the patchwork farmland of our rural landscape.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 11

"So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?" - Louise Erdrich (from The Blue Jay's Dance)

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown-and-white spaniel. Dreaming.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 10

"At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world." - Patricia A. McKillip Photograph: Lottie finds wonder in the emergence of foxgloves on her hill.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, sits by tall pink spires of foxgloves on a hillside path winding through the bracken. Bees are buzzing around the blossums, and the colours are vivid from recent rain.

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 9

"Step across the boundary and the trespass of story will begin. The forest takes a deep breath...This is the moment of beginning, the pause on the threshold before the journey. So many tales begin here, hard by a great forest." - Jay Griffiths (Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape)

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, at the edge of the woodlands behind my studio. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)

Terri Windling@terriwindling· Jun 8

Same to you, Charles. May your week be a good one.