Describing the indescribable with a little help from my cousin's incredible talent!

 Effective writing is rife with challenges, and one of them is finding (or creating) the words to most powerfully describe something indescribable. Masters of weird fiction have always been quite adept at this craft. Writer's like Derleth, Howard, and Lovecraft could weave nightmarish horrors with mere words stitched as if with a needle into the mind's eye. Where words, either established or improvised on the spot, may suffice to create a mental image, sometimes the talent of an artist is what really brings a creation to life and gluts our ravenous visual appetite with wondrous images.

In my Collywobbles universe, one of the central yet ominous figures is a being not of this world. It goes by many names but one I've leaned on the most is The Weaver of Sorrows aka The Weaver. Not much has yet been revealed about this entity. Some of my readers have imagined it as an arachnid of sorts, but details of its physical form (if indeed it has one) have not yet been fully described.

One of things I love about imagination is the the ability to collaborate, modify, and make an idea one's own. My awesome cousin Ava has created an image and rather than being inspired by my work, my work has been inspired by her art! I could totally see the mysterious Weaver having a form like this.


 

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