writerly ways

[cornerofmadness]

I give up. I'm now the monkey-minding story's bitch. Meet the bare basics for the characters i.e. their names.



Evil Momma –Marija
Evil daughter – Mliss
Not-so-evil son – Mirron

Queen – Amalur
Princess – Kannitha (Kanni?)

Her best mages:
Momma – Sunniva
Pappa – (Richard Castle inspired) Hara
Daughter (lead character) – Lilika
Deaf son – Jurrien


Twin Mages (think younger versions of frazier and nyles)
Soren (Lilika’s partner)
Sahen (they might need T names)

Dania (or Rikka, Lilika’s best friend)


well there needs to be a few more adults. I do know Sunni has a couple friends (it's one of them who nearly dies mid story) it was supposed to be a male/female partnership for those friends with the guy nearly dying but they inform me they're two women. sure whatever, go pick a name already.

Basic idea, magic runs stronger in women than men though we see both, you're either good at defensive or offensive magic but not both so one of each is paired up. This morning on the way to get groceries, evil mommy tells me she's the queen's half sister (via their father) and thinks she ought to be queen (even though daddy is only king by marriage). One of the evil spells is going to spread virus like, ripping away inhibitions which doesn't sound that evil until people really think about it. There probably needs to be more evil but I'm not sure WHAT that is yet.

Still have no name for the academy/conversatory. I'll need a few more friends for the younger crew too. Ah yippee, the novel with a million characters...

yearly word count (i.e. i'm way behind last year and will never make this promise to myself)

71671 / 175000 words. 41% done!

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're doing a million characters story. Good for you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i wanted to be doing a story with 6 characters...but NOOOOOO

someone nearby is mucking out their barn

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a joyful smell if it's a cow or hog or chicken barn.

Joyful.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

cow from the smell. hog is so so SOOOOO much worse

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Chickens and hogs are about a tie. Horse barns don't stink nearly as bad as the others.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

very true

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

But cast of thousands is what you _do_. Roll with it.

I love the concept. Magical virus. And the fact that it strips inhibitions opens the field for all kinds of mayhem. Drinking lowers inhibitions, for example, and sots are such lovely people. (I wonder if any of the raving, abusive drunks they arrest on COPS ever see the footage later on TV and are appalled? If they're not, they should be.)

I like "Soren" and "Sahen" myself, by the way. The names roll off the tongue very nicely. "T" names sound angular and aggressive. If the twins _are_ aggressive, though, better go with the "T" names.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

this is true about the cast of thousands.

oh good. I was hoping the concept wasn't lame. And yes that's what I thought too. Drinking and screwing are the least it will do. I mean think about all the times you'd like to just kill that ass bothering you but you don't. If you had no inhibitions...blood is going to run like rivers

and yes those asses on Cops! ought to be ashamed of themselves and ugh to not seeing it this week due to baseball...

Soren and Sahen are more like a tougher version of Nyles and Frasier so yeah, not that aggressive. they're both defensive magic. It's Lily that's aggressive