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Ramblings of a Runcible Witch (Author Madeline Claire Franklin)

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  • September Vibes

    Every September I go through some kind of deep rejuvination. Instead of winding down with the summer and the sun, my energy and productivity all seem to ramp up, nearly effortlessly. These days my thoughts are clearer, my intentions purer, my moods more balanced. Part of this might be because I’ve been acutely focused on…

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    September 4, 2019
    musings, Runcible Witchery, writing
    artist dates, creativity, julia cameron, magic, morning pages, Runcible Witchery, self care, self love, september, TAW, the artist’s way, truer words podcast, witchcraft
  • Gratias Ago

    It’s that time of year again! American folklore aside (there are other people who have written about the history of Thanksgiving in America that know a lot more and have said everything much more eloquently than I can), the idea of a holiday for giving thanks is as old as any of the harvest festivals…

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    November 21, 2018
    musings, Runcible Witchery
    gratitude, tgivins, thanksgiving, wheel of life
  • November Rain

    Woops, missed a month there. I ain’t gonna apologize though because I was out there living my best life: An amazing writing retreat in Ocean City with several of my VCFA classmates (writing, researching, swimming in the ocean, watching the sun rise and set, watching dolphins frolic along the coast, unexpectedly dancing the night away,…

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    November 15, 2018
    random, Runcible Witchery
    astrology, mars, mercury, november, retrograde, venus
  • Don’t Fear the Retrograde

    I’ve always been aware of if not “into” astrology, ever since I was a kid (early runcible witch tendencies I guess). Like moon phases, I don’t think planetary alignments and natal charts can control how our lives shape up, but I do think there is something about the moon and the planets that seems to influence our…

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    October 5, 2018
    feminism, Runcible Witchery
    astrology, feminism, misogyny, retrograde, venus
  • 5 Minutes a Day Keeps the Self-Loathing Away!

    I suppose I should have made this post earlier in the month, but I generally forget that people might be interested in anything I’m doing/have to say because #internalizedselfdeprication (but I’ve been working on that!). But a funny thing happens when you start giving yourself permission to speak from the heart regardless of who might/not hear…

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    October 4, 2018
    writing
    5for31challenge
  • Volcano.

    I have spent the last two weeks typing out furious comments on Facebook, then deleting those comments because they don’t add anything to the conversation but merely spew my magmatic rage all over the internet. I’ve also written this post several times and deleted it because it’s just me asking “why?” over and over and over again.…

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    September 28, 2018
    feminism
    anger, emotions, feminism, kavanaugh, politics, rape, sexual assault
  • She Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe

    AS MANY OF YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW, Dune by Frank Herbert (and the three sequels) is one of my favorite books of all time. It has a lot of stuff going on that’s worth loving (and a few problematic things but that’s for another conversation), but one of the main things that drew me to it was…

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    September 13, 2018
    musings, psychology
    emotional intelligence, just-world fallacy, just-world hypothesis, psychology, victim blaming
  • The Language of Dreams

    Since I’m being my authentic runcible witchy self on here, I wanted to talk about something that has been on my mind a lot the past few weeks: dreams. Years ago I saw a popular blogger at a literary agency post an article about dream sequences in fiction. Her #hottake was that if your novel…

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    August 31, 2018
    Runcible Witchery, writing
    dreaming, dreams, google dream generator, hot take
  • Rise of the Runcible Witch

    As some of you may know, my parents met in a religious cult. I won’t get into which one, but they were out of it by the time I was in kindergarten. Did it influence me and my brothers? Of course. But it was less of an influence from the cult itself, and more of an…

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    August 24, 2018
    Runcible Witchery
    magic, paganism, runcible, Runcible Witchery, runicble witchcraft, spirituality, witch, witchcraft, witchery, witches
  • The Pie of Life

    So, I graduated on July 18th, and immediately followed up with two weeks of non-stop family visiting from out of state/country. Once things were finally back to “normal,” I realized I have no idea what my new “normal” looks like. I’ve made a pact with my classmates to finish a solid first draft of my thesis…

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    August 17, 2018
    musings
    exercise, life coach, life pie, wheel of life
  • New Site, New First Post

    (If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed some big changes to the site. What can I say? It’s time for a fresh start.) I had intended, way back in January, to start updating my blog regularly. I had intended to do a lot of things in 2018, but, as usual, Life (and more…

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    August 11, 2018
    Uncategorized
    authenticity, blogging, conversational
  • Burning Bright in a Garbage Fire World

    I recently attended and returned from my second residency at VCFA (and my first winter residency). It was in many ways even better than the first residency, and in some ways it was less, but it was incredible to be surrounded by so many creative, insightful, inspiring people, especially after the year we’ve all had.…

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    January 28, 2017
    musings, random, VCFA
  • Thoughts from the Inside of an Egg

    (Yeah yeah I haven’t updated in ages. 2016 sucked, end of story.) Of all the slang to come about in the last decade, “no chill” has bee the best phrase to apply to my general state of existence. I’ve always been an excitable, overly anxious person, over-thinking, over-processing, to the point of wild emotional instability.…

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    January 9, 2017
    musings, random
  • VCFA: No Voldemort Here

    I’m trying to wrap my brain around the residency before it all fades away, but frankly I’m still exhausted from the whole experience (plus a mostly unrelated health issue on my first day back to work :P) so I’d better write down what I remember, now, before it’s gone. VCFA is magical. They call it…

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    July 25, 2016
    VCFA
  • The Timing of Things

    Hello all! It’s been a while! Life has been life, shall we say? And let it go at that. But some exciting things have happened while I’ve been absent from this blog! I finally decided to take the plunge and apply for a few low-residence MFA programs in creative writing, specifically programs geared towards writing…

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    May 5, 2016
    random
  • I’m floating in a most peculiar way.

    (This is not a memorial post or an obituary. There are hundreds, thousands of those published by now. This is a personal reflection on what David Bowie meant to me, individually. Your mileage may have varied.) It took me a while to get my thoughts around David Bowie’s passing. See, he was an unusual important…

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    January 12, 2016
    musings
  • Happy New Year

    It’s still the beginning of the academic year for lots of people. It’s the beginning of Persephone’s descent into the Underworld. It is the end of the Days of Awe–the stretch of days between Rosh Hashannah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur. To me, it feels like new beginnings. Maybe it’s because these past…

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    September 22, 2015
    musings, Uncategorized, writing
  • Enjoy the goddamn journey, ’cause it’s all we’ll ever have.

    I have been writing literally since I have been able to construct sentences on (construction) paper (with crayons). They were the plagiaristic early fan fiction of a child who had just watched The Last Unicorn and Labyrinth about a hundred million times, but still. I was telling stories. I would say I began writing fiction in…

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    June 2, 2015
    Uncategorized
  • 2015: The Empress (Part 2)

    (For Part I, click here) All my life I’ve been enchanted by the mystical, mythical world. I love, even if I do not wholeheartedly believe in, the idea of fortune-telling and psychics and second-sight. (You may have gathered that from my tarot-based book series.) I’ve even joked with my friends that I collect psychic readings,…

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    January 12, 2015
    musings, Uncategorized
  • 2015: The Empress (Part 1)

    To fully appreciate my perspective on 2015, I have to go back to New Year’s Eve, 2013: I was driving to a friend’s cottage to spend the holiday and weekend with them for a mini writing retreat. My first Christmas after separating from my husband had been hard, even though it was anything but traditional–my family…

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    January 7, 2015
    Uncategorized
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