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[Fic] "Ashes" part 4 -- original, NaNo 2010
( Ashes, part 4 )
1) So I still haven't gotten Morgalen on-page, but at least you've 'seen' her secondhand. The next scene (or at the very latest, the one after that) will introduce her properly. And then I will have all my main characters in place. \o/
2) With regard to the Jyavati Sea and other geographic mysteries: I really do need to draw a map at some point. Until then, let me just say that this world is composed of a Pangaea-like supercontinent, which reaches from the arctic circle in the north down to about, oh, 40 degrees south of the equator, at the far southeastern tip. The Jyavati Sea is a Mediterranean-like sea -- not quite landlocked, but very close to it -- that pushes in from the east just north of the equator. Zerlon is in the southwest, around 35 degrees south of the equator. It lies in a highland plateau between some coastal mountains in the west and a big-ass mountain range to the east and south, where a continental plate is driving the southeastern tip of the supercontinent (i.e., a peninsular subcontinent) into the rest of the landmass. The mountains and the land beyond them are the Great Waste; the miasma spread from there.
3) 1,325 words today, 5,550 total.
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In offline news, my mother is coming up for a visit this weekend, since my dad is off at a conference somewhere. This will be a standard flying visit -- Friday evening to Saturday afternoon -- during which we will eat out two or three times, do some shopping, visit the Farmer's Market, a winery or two, and maybe do something explicitly touristy. Since Mom will be accompanied only by her dog, I will be putting her up on my air mattress in my computer room.
This means I will probably not get much writing done on Friday.
Oh well, whatever! I think seeing my mom is slightly more important. :-)
1) So I still haven't gotten Morgalen on-page, but at least you've 'seen' her secondhand. The next scene (or at the very latest, the one after that) will introduce her properly. And then I will have all my main characters in place. \o/
2) With regard to the Jyavati Sea and other geographic mysteries: I really do need to draw a map at some point. Until then, let me just say that this world is composed of a Pangaea-like supercontinent, which reaches from the arctic circle in the north down to about, oh, 40 degrees south of the equator, at the far southeastern tip. The Jyavati Sea is a Mediterranean-like sea -- not quite landlocked, but very close to it -- that pushes in from the east just north of the equator. Zerlon is in the southwest, around 35 degrees south of the equator. It lies in a highland plateau between some coastal mountains in the west and a big-ass mountain range to the east and south, where a continental plate is driving the southeastern tip of the supercontinent (i.e., a peninsular subcontinent) into the rest of the landmass. The mountains and the land beyond them are the Great Waste; the miasma spread from there.
3) 1,325 words today, 5,550 total.
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In offline news, my mother is coming up for a visit this weekend, since my dad is off at a conference somewhere. This will be a standard flying visit -- Friday evening to Saturday afternoon -- during which we will eat out two or three times, do some shopping, visit the Farmer's Market, a winery or two, and maybe do something explicitly touristy. Since Mom will be accompanied only by her dog, I will be putting her up on my air mattress in my computer room.
This means I will probably not get much writing done on Friday.
Oh well, whatever! I think seeing my mom is slightly more important. :-)