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Feb. 25th, 2011 11:37 amItem the first: In LA Weird Weather News snow is predicted for some areas at the 1000 foot mark. Not much. But still. Snow. Best thing, I am actually going in the area where snow is maybe going to be happening tomorrow.
Item the Second: Short story I was writing is inching towards fifteen thousand words. I don't know if that qualifies as a short story any more. It is definitely heading into novella territory. It's about a man who becomes the Fool to save himself from a man who sold his soul to the devil.
The world is pretty cool, I think. It takes place in Victorian London and involves these beings known as the Forgotten. They were created when man first learned to put names to fears. For examples: There's the Blind King who is the fear of death. He's the king of all and he doesn't see the difference between one person or the other, they all coming to death. He has two sons, the Thief in the Night whose mother was the first woman who committed suicide and The Shadow of Death, whose mother was the first woman killed. The Ashling is the fear of fire and burning to death. Here and There are twins and the beginnings (Here) and endings (There) of journeys. The Ashling and Here have a relationship because when fire is here in the home, it must be tamed so it won't burn anyone it isn't supposed to.
The Shinning ones, on the other hand, are what the Forgotten call angels and demons. They are made of the hopes and dreams of humanity and live in the light. When a dream is crushed, then the angel falls. But it is still a dream and a hope, not a fear, so both demons and angels are part of the light.
There's a lot more, of course. But that's the basic gist of some of the mythology.
Item the third: Oceanic elephants. I am currently reading "The science of the Discworld: the Globe" which is fascinating. In it there is a brief discussion on elephant lungs and how they, unlike other mammals don't have viscus fluid around them. The writers say that the theory is that elephants left the ocean, like most mammals did. But then they went back into the ocean before coming back out again a second time.
And I thought. Oceanic elephants! That's so cool! And I'm going to stick them in my world.
Obviously, there requires more thought to it than just ELEPHANTS IN THE OCEAN, but yeah.
Item the Second: Short story I was writing is inching towards fifteen thousand words. I don't know if that qualifies as a short story any more. It is definitely heading into novella territory. It's about a man who becomes the Fool to save himself from a man who sold his soul to the devil.
The world is pretty cool, I think. It takes place in Victorian London and involves these beings known as the Forgotten. They were created when man first learned to put names to fears. For examples: There's the Blind King who is the fear of death. He's the king of all and he doesn't see the difference between one person or the other, they all coming to death. He has two sons, the Thief in the Night whose mother was the first woman who committed suicide and The Shadow of Death, whose mother was the first woman killed. The Ashling is the fear of fire and burning to death. Here and There are twins and the beginnings (Here) and endings (There) of journeys. The Ashling and Here have a relationship because when fire is here in the home, it must be tamed so it won't burn anyone it isn't supposed to.
The Shinning ones, on the other hand, are what the Forgotten call angels and demons. They are made of the hopes and dreams of humanity and live in the light. When a dream is crushed, then the angel falls. But it is still a dream and a hope, not a fear, so both demons and angels are part of the light.
There's a lot more, of course. But that's the basic gist of some of the mythology.
Item the third: Oceanic elephants. I am currently reading "The science of the Discworld: the Globe" which is fascinating. In it there is a brief discussion on elephant lungs and how they, unlike other mammals don't have viscus fluid around them. The writers say that the theory is that elephants left the ocean, like most mammals did. But then they went back into the ocean before coming back out again a second time.
And I thought. Oceanic elephants! That's so cool! And I'm going to stick them in my world.
Obviously, there requires more thought to it than just ELEPHANTS IN THE OCEAN, but yeah.
