My thoughts today jumped from the emerging central political conflict to the Tyrrhenia legacy. It had been in my mind for quite a while, bubbling and fermenting, but today's development was glorious.
We shall have our own version of Elysian Fields: "down the dank moldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went, and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates, and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields where pale liliaceous asphodel and poplars grew." It will be a place to press into climax; a place for rest, cleansing, and comtemplation; and a place for graceful lamentation.
I am in debt to past books. LOTR, Chinese martial arts novels, the classics, Jane Austen--these all form the knowledge I draw from. No idea is ever original. Everything is simply an arrangement of a story we all already know.
Oh, I did write something this past week, so let's have it. I think I might have posted the previous version of this section, in Leal's POV. Van's is working out much better, and today you get a whole paragraph!
Leal had insisted that a wise king used the illusion of power as well as the practice of authority, though to Van's mind there was no real need. Even in the most remote countryside, his people have no trouble recognizing the crest on his sword and his mailed, trailing entourage. Leal and the rest overlook the importance inherent in the common shirt. His rule over Fanelia only benefited from his royal informalities: loyalty that could never be commanded by a "Sire" or even a "King Fanel", only only by a "Van-sama".
And now that I've written--my previous fears are unfounded, thank god. Nothing is ever so important in life as to keep going forward.
The asphodel:
2 comments:
Hello! I'm so happy for you for the progress of the story. I really can't wait to read the next chapter. When will you going to post it? :)
Oh, you know me--if I post a deadline I'm sure to break it ;P
I have worked hard to make the next chs good, but I still think the plot isn't all there yet. Chocolatelova has been pretty busy, so the plot is suffering from the lack of a second input.
And for some strange reason I keep coming up with ideas for everything but the next ch D:
But--I am very, very happy you are checking up on my status :D It makes me happy when I can present something for you!
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