Does anyone have any suggestions for books on practical witchcraft? I’m trying to get back into my practise now that my youngest is older, and I feel like I’m diving into the deep end all over again. I currently have from the library:

The Crystal Bible Llewellen’s Complete Book of Correspondences The Green Wiccan Herbal Runes for the Green Witch

Thanks!

Hello all! I'm reporting to you guys from a cafe where I'm struggling with the third (and hopefully final) draft of my paper, and thought I'd open a convo about everyone's drafting habits!

For all academic and creative writers, what's your writing process like, and do you write multiple drafts (why/why not)?

So before in my study career I never wrote drafts because I thought they were more time consuming and I just wanted the paper out of my way as quickly as possible. A year ago or so, however, I found out the joy of drafting and I think my writing has actually improved a lot thanks to it. To me drafting allows me to be as terrible as possible, and I can just give up in the middle a sentence and leave notes where and how to improve on later drafts. This way I feel less pressure to be good or get it done first try, and it has made writing so much more enjoyable! I think sometimes it even makes the process quicker, although it seems like there is more work, because I get over my procrastination much faster, and can organise my thoughts easier.

I also have so much more respect for book authors now, because just imagine how many processes of drafting and editing they go through in every single chapter before the book gets out! Sometimes I might do 5 or more drafts just for a 10 page paper, imagine how many you need for a 400 page novel. I've always been interested in creative writing, but I've felt that it's too difficult and that I'm very bad at it, but after beginning to draft I've realised that if I tried the same method with creative writing, with enough time I might be able to come up with an end product that was not too bad even. So maybe in the future I'll give myself a challenge and try writing a book after all!

Anyway, the main point of my rambling was just to acknowledge the tremendous amount of work and drafts that goes into all of the amazing books that we get to read and discuss on this site!