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...thoughts from
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You’ve finished writing your story, gone through the revisions. All the thematic elements you want are in there, crystal-clear and easy to find. You send it to your First Reader or your critique group. The replies come back. And the first thing you discover is that no one seems to know what the blasted thing’s about!

Give it Meaning
Allegory vs. Applicability
by Scott M. Sandridge

 

Changes at MindFlights, plus a Plea for Help
by DEP Staff

GoodSearch is Great for DEP
by L. S. King

The final issues of Dragons, Knights, and Angels and The Sword Review are now complete. While DKA and SR have ceased publication, their spirit lives on in MindFlights. Please visit our new magazine at www.mindflights.com.

The websites for both Dragons, Knights, and Angels and The Sword Review will remain available. In addition to housing the archives and forums, those websites will include links to new features at MindFlights.

Thank you for your support.

We hope you will join us at MindFlights.

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