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April Fools Update!
Alan Morgan April 7th, 2004
Did 460 words yesterday on chapter 18 of Shadows of Twilight (formerly Heir of Luzon).
Did 776 words today on the same chapter… two scenes down. I did go with a more complex plot– it was Lord Orel’s seneschal that was possessed, but Lord Ayan was the one allied with the dark mages, not Orel. Orel was guilty of other things, but not as serious as that. (Though Lord Sangar seems to think horse thieves are as bad as allies of the dark mages, heh…)
Did 101 on Bathing Beauties… chipping away at that.
So… those 877 words put me up to 5038 for the month so far. Which means…
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*ponders*
Alan Morgan April 3rd, 2004
Working on fleshing out a setting. I’ve been thinking about the crits I got on the “Blood Sight” short, and one really good point was that I needed to establish the setting better.
Now, thinking about that, it just kind of made sense that I should look at the setting I was designing for the shorts based on the character Slip. (“Bathing Beauties” is the first one I’m working on with her, but I have notes for future ones.) So… why not use the Slip setting (which I always meant for more than just that series) for “Blood Sight” and other “Blood” shorts to follow?
So I dug out my notes, and started working on a map. Got some work done on that, named the different countries and a few places. Then I started to think… what about “Division Bell”? DB focuses on one continent and a really large island nearby. So far, for Slip’s setting, I only have a few islands and one major continent. Why not combine the two into the same world? Always meant to explore other places in the DB setting, because Latinira wasn’t all. Zarania’s story was going to delve more into that… and if I flip her from Slip’s setting to Latinira, that makes a lot of sense.
“Tears of the Dragon” might also fit, though I haven’t thought a lot about that. I’m thinking I might.
“By the Horn” I was already thinking about fitting in a while back, but was going to hold back until the setting was firmed up more.
So, if I do tie it all together, I’ll have:
* Division Bell (Latinira novel)
* Zarania’s story (Latinira short)
* Bathing Beauties series (Slip’s shorts)
* Blood Sight series (Awena + Karlan’s shorts [need to rename Karlan])
* Tears of the Dragon (short)
* By the Horn (short)
I think it’s probably a good idea. It’ll give things a cohesiveness, a sense that the world beyond each of the areas I focus on actually exists and isn’t just floating in vaccuum.
–Morgan
