Writing activity for the 8th

[annathepiper]

Small progress through Chapter 19 of Lament, pretty much, since most of my day had to go to other activities. I’m on page 19 of 23 at this point, though, so if I apply myself I should be able to finish the word count reduction for this chapter tomorrow!

I’ve been continuing to mull Oscar’s story in the back of my brain, and while I don’t have a real core plot idea for it yet, I do have a couple of beginning ideas. One, it’s possible this story may be non-urban fantasy, by which I mean, contemporary fantasy NOT in an urban setting. It may be rural/small town, and specifically, coastal. Two, I’m keying off a remark solarbird made to me that has stuck with me: “tuba is piccolo for whales”. The idea here being that a tuba is one of the few mortal instruments that can dip down into the range of the deep, primal music I want to be part of the plot of this story. This implies that there will be Big Creatures involved with this story.

Possibly whales. Possibly dragons.

More on this as it happens, y’all!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Elephants are known to communicate over long distances through subsonics. Bizarrely, this was only realized recently, when a researcher noted that she could feel vibrations she couldn't hear, found mention of them in the literature but no explanation and few hypotheses of what they were for and decided to find out.

[annathepiper]

I'm aware of the elephant thing, yeah. I'm pretty sure I'm not about to write an elephant-based story, but this might inform my decisions about the creatures I will be writing about. Also, it ties in to wrog's comment above.