Marion Zimmer Bradley, the author of fiction based on the Arthurian legends from a woman's point of view, has a site helpful to writers that includes advice to writers about taxes and so much more. While more books by Bradley emerge from publishers, I recall reading THE MISTS OF AVALON many years ago and being intrigued by the notion of the land of fairy, which is a place one can slip into without realizing it, and years pass by. Whenever her character actually thinks it is time to go, she is incited to join another party, and when finally she does, going back the way she came, she discovers the bones of the horse she rode in on. Many years have gone by, but she gets back on her path... only to discover that people have aged and things have changed...
It happens to all of us. One day I was in West Hollywood and looked into the windows of a restaurant I used to go to a lot, and there were the same group of men playing chess that had been sitting there seven years before.
