Feb. 29th, 2004

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This is my... um, third? Fourth? Yeah, my fourth attempt at writing the beginning of Ekanu's story, the part when she leaves her people. I took a stab at it back when I was thirteen, with predictably awful results, and the two more recent tries were, respectively, as flat on the page as a bad anthropology text, and way too contaminated by modern parent-teenager arguments.

I'm still not wildly fond of this attempt, but it feels closer to what actually happened than the others. Beginnings are hard, after all. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

ExpandBeginnings )

And that's more or less it. She doesn't get into the music thing until later, partially during the long trek south through Mohrad, the Forest Kingdoms, and half of Estaria, and partially when she is forced to actually find a place to stay and something to do in Estara proper.

Eh. It's weird talking about this stuff and realizing exactly how much background I have for this world. Ten years produces a lot of random information -- cultural studies, maps, histories, character outlines, trade patterns, mythologies, methods of warfare... it's funny how much stuff I read ends up in this world some way or other.

And to think I started it as a story about psychic people with pointed ears. Yeesh. There are times I look at my younger self and can't quite figure out how she and I can possibly be the same person. Then I remember that the psychic powers were meant to be a thought-experiment about a world where people literally couldn't lie to each other, and realize I've changed less than I sometimes think. I'm glad I got off-track with that idea, though. I like my existing version of that world much better.

Maybe I'll go back and do something with the world-without-lies someday, though. It is an interesting idea, after all. How human would people still be if we couldn't lie?

Okay, shutting up now.

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