Looking back and forward
Mar. 2nd, 2020 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeFebruary was a good month for my writing habit. I wrote 27 out of 29 days. A lot of what I wrote was many different things rather than one project and often small chunks of 100-200 words, but I wrote so I am counting it as a win.
I think I'm gearing up to go back to my urban fantasy I started last year but ended up stalling out on. Or there's also a high fantasy that's scratching at the back on my head. Not sure which will get precedence; perhaps I'll switch off between them.
I'm currently reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and enjoying it. It definitely feels like a Russian folk tale, though I only know what tales I've read and nothing about Russian culture or name forms. I also can't tell if the author is making a variation of the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful or if this is something new. Still enjoying it immensely.
John Bierce, the author of the Mage Errant series I've recently become obsessed with has a Redit AMA, and so I asked him a few things. What the fashion at the mage academy is like (lots of robes and mixes of styles since people come from all over. D&D inspired styles or whatever fantasy works for you.) and how people get from place to place. I asked the latter as Skyhold is built within a mountain, a fairly large one by the author's own words, and yet people seem to just walk about and still get to places on time. Mr. Bierce confirmed there are no horses or other animals he just didn't mention, and while there are some magical lifts, people mostly walk.
I'm afraid I find myself questioning how many large mountains the author has walked up or around. :D
I think I've decided that if there are magical lifts, there are magical walkways (like the speed walkways in airports) as well. I just can't see people taking less than a day to get from one side of the school to the other.
I think I may have stressed my shoulder yesterday. I spent most of the morning working in either the community garden pulling weeds and then the afternoon digging in the rocky soil at my house to plant some salvia and roses. Today it is not happy with me. Time for some ibuprofin.
And now it's time for me to get back to work.
I think I'm gearing up to go back to my urban fantasy I started last year but ended up stalling out on. Or there's also a high fantasy that's scratching at the back on my head. Not sure which will get precedence; perhaps I'll switch off between them.
I'm currently reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and enjoying it. It definitely feels like a Russian folk tale, though I only know what tales I've read and nothing about Russian culture or name forms. I also can't tell if the author is making a variation of the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful or if this is something new. Still enjoying it immensely.
John Bierce, the author of the Mage Errant series I've recently become obsessed with has a Redit AMA, and so I asked him a few things. What the fashion at the mage academy is like (lots of robes and mixes of styles since people come from all over. D&D inspired styles or whatever fantasy works for you.) and how people get from place to place. I asked the latter as Skyhold is built within a mountain, a fairly large one by the author's own words, and yet people seem to just walk about and still get to places on time. Mr. Bierce confirmed there are no horses or other animals he just didn't mention, and while there are some magical lifts, people mostly walk.
I'm afraid I find myself questioning how many large mountains the author has walked up or around. :D
I think I've decided that if there are magical lifts, there are magical walkways (like the speed walkways in airports) as well. I just can't see people taking less than a day to get from one side of the school to the other.
I think I may have stressed my shoulder yesterday. I spent most of the morning working in either the community garden pulling weeds and then the afternoon digging in the rocky soil at my house to plant some salvia and roses. Today it is not happy with me. Time for some ibuprofin.
And now it's time for me to get back to work.
