Category: Kwikspell
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Kwikspell #6: Collaboration
January is always a busy month for me – I love working on new projects and kicking off the new year with a wildfire whiz-bang! This year, all of my new projects are collaborative. Rather than working on stuff on my own, I’m sharing my creative energies and my responsibilities with others, and it’s turning…
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Kwikspell #5: Virtual Performances
As I was watching the Fountaindale Public Library’s wonderful Yule Ball at Home last night, I was inspired to write this month’s Kwikspell column! Both Tonks and the Aurors and Ashley Trix and the WZRDs performed, and their sets were so wonderful and different. I really felt like they represented some of the best parts…
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Kwikspell #4: How To Keep Creating When It’s Hard
Making stuff is hard. In fact, when I sat down to write this month’s Kwikspell article, I had a really difficult time convincing myself to do it. I put it off for a few weeks, then wrote a few paragraphs while I was alone in the woods, and then my friendly neighborhood ‘Pedia editor helped…
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Kwikspell #3: Getting Into Character
We here at the Kwikspell column thought there was no better time than the month of Halloween to talk about characters. So many wizard rock bands have taken on the persona of an individual character or a group of them, using it to influence everything from their songwriting to their stage persona. Going out on stage…
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Kwikspell #2: Making a Compilation Album
Since the 2020 Wizard Rock Sampler just came out, it seemed like a good time to talk about just how easy it can be to put your own wizard rock compilation album together. A compilation is a collection of songs from different artists released together as one album. Oftentimes these compilations will have a theme,…
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Kwikspell #1: The Magic of Songwriting
Welcome to Kwikspell, a new magical correspondence course in column form! Each month, you’ll learn some how-tos to help you make cool things in the wizard rock world. Although this column is called “Kwikspell,” it’s unfortunately not written by the band Kwikspell (or QuickSpell), just by Grace Kendall. A song is a magical thing –…