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thrihyrneMy dreams had been a bit subdued of late, but not last night. Some of it is fuzzy now, but in my dream I'd listened to an entire book on tape and then, later on in the dream, had gone to a person's house where they were washing cars and got my car washed (though it was my first car, a red 1989 Audi 80 named Ouvrielle) and told the guy there about the person in the book on tape! Because the person in the book had gone to college nearby and the college had closed down in 1974 but this guy (with the car wash) had attended before it closed... :shakes head: My subconscious really is jam-packed.
I'll keep this somewhat to a minimum since most of you haven't read the Wraeththu series that I'm going to crazy with in this multi-novella gapfiller I'm writing, but I may write about some possible character motivation questions that could be seen as general. However, I've been writing this story and set the characters in their shadowy past at my alma mater, though it's off in a somewhat post-apocalyptic future, and it's from Ashmael's POV. I was looking at the second trilogy of books last night for descriptions of this City on a Hill, Immanion, back when it was still under construction, because I'm writing about Ashmael's first visit there. According to canon, he was pretty much there from the not quite get-go. But in my personal exploration of him as a character back in his first few years as a har (versus being human), I have him building a community from two small groups up on the Mountain at Sewanee. This is what I've been writing for weeks now, but I'm so excited because as I was leafing through the first book of trilogy #2, I see that another character describes Ashmael (and two others) like this: It was obvious to Seel that these were hara of high caliber, who had perhaps attempted projects similar to his own at Saltrock. (emphasis mine) So even though when I was first inhaling these books and had no eye to Ashmael at all, somehow I managed to do exactly what the author had envisioned! I'm just so excited about that.
Back to your regularly scheduled Thursdays. I'll probably be musing more on this this weekend as I'm really at a loss as to character motivations and may want to write out my thoughts even if no-one can really say anything about it in reply.
I'll keep this somewhat to a minimum since most of you haven't read the Wraeththu series that I'm going to crazy with in this multi-novella gapfiller I'm writing, but I may write about some possible character motivation questions that could be seen as general. However, I've been writing this story and set the characters in their shadowy past at my alma mater, though it's off in a somewhat post-apocalyptic future, and it's from Ashmael's POV. I was looking at the second trilogy of books last night for descriptions of this City on a Hill, Immanion, back when it was still under construction, because I'm writing about Ashmael's first visit there. According to canon, he was pretty much there from the not quite get-go. But in my personal exploration of him as a character back in his first few years as a har (versus being human), I have him building a community from two small groups up on the Mountain at Sewanee. This is what I've been writing for weeks now, but I'm so excited because as I was leafing through the first book of trilogy #2, I see that another character describes Ashmael (and two others) like this: It was obvious to Seel that these were hara of high caliber, who had perhaps attempted projects similar to his own at Saltrock. (emphasis mine) So even though when I was first inhaling these books and had no eye to Ashmael at all, somehow I managed to do exactly what the author had envisioned! I'm just so excited about that.
Back to your regularly scheduled Thursdays. I'll probably be musing more on this this weekend as I'm really at a loss as to character motivations and may want to write out my thoughts even if no-one can really say anything about it in reply.