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marmota_bAlthough I'm also the sort of creative person who badly needs inspiration, so I do not want to be too nasty to it.
Even when it's being nasty to me.
Case in point: I had a little idea for the further fortunes of Kameen from A Butterfly With Its Wings. Today, I was inspired to open a Word document and write it down (with actual words to put it in) quickly before I went to sleep relatively early. (I'm ill, and I need the sleep.) The idea, the idea that had always been there, was that - Aravis had to learn the secrets of sleeping potions somewhere. The idea now was of a short but poignant one-shot that showed how Kameen continued to play a small but important role.
Yeah. Famous last words and all that. My inspiration decided it would not stop there.
Before I knew it, I had the beginnings of a much larger story, a story in which Kameen Akrima and Lasaraleen Tarkheena start Calormen's first Abolitionist movement and the Narnian world's equivalent to the Underground Railroad.
Oh, and also it would involve Corin's Calormene misfortunes from Syrena_of_the_lake's story Pack Rat (and by natural inclusion, from my Packing for the Journey).
Unfortunately, it also involves elements of the larger story which make it unpublishable until I get to MUCH LATER in The Peridan Chronicles (which, you may have noticed, is still stuck in a colossal hiatus), because Spoilers.
And here I am, after 1 of the AM, with five pages of text that barely scratch the surface.
AARGH.
Had to get it out of the system immediately, without doing that out loud.
In case you were wondering what happened to Kameen: that. That's what happened to Kameen.
The one good thing about all this is, I'm liking the Abolitionist sprawl of the story much, much more than the original idea, in the grand scheme of things.
Even when it's being nasty to me.
Case in point: I had a little idea for the further fortunes of Kameen from A Butterfly With Its Wings. Today, I was inspired to open a Word document and write it down (with actual words to put it in) quickly before I went to sleep relatively early. (I'm ill, and I need the sleep.) The idea, the idea that had always been there, was that - Aravis had to learn the secrets of sleeping potions somewhere. The idea now was of a short but poignant one-shot that showed how Kameen continued to play a small but important role.
Yeah. Famous last words and all that. My inspiration decided it would not stop there.
Before I knew it, I had the beginnings of a much larger story, a story in which Kameen Akrima and Lasaraleen Tarkheena start Calormen's first Abolitionist movement and the Narnian world's equivalent to the Underground Railroad.
Oh, and also it would involve Corin's Calormene misfortunes from Syrena_of_the_lake's story Pack Rat (and by natural inclusion, from my Packing for the Journey).
Unfortunately, it also involves elements of the larger story which make it unpublishable until I get to MUCH LATER in The Peridan Chronicles (which, you may have noticed, is still stuck in a colossal hiatus), because Spoilers.
And here I am, after 1 of the AM, with five pages of text that barely scratch the surface.
AARGH.
Had to get it out of the system immediately, without doing that out loud.
In case you were wondering what happened to Kameen: that. That's what happened to Kameen.
The one good thing about all this is, I'm liking the Abolitionist sprawl of the story much, much more than the original idea, in the grand scheme of things.
