Thigns occupying my brain meats
Nov. 26th, 2018 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeHealth is heading towards very good places. I've been hitting a lot of yoga or yoga inspired mashup type group classes at the YMCA, which I am paying a family membership for. I'm already noticing a lot less knee and back pain, and my flexibility has vastly improved. I'm even noticing it's much easier for me to walk now. Like, before I always felt stiff but now I'm back to being the easy walking person I was ages ago. Seriously, I used to be able to walk from the Lower Haight to Northbeach in 45 minutes when I lived in SF, and now I'm heading back to that level of walking ability.
So will come the cardio.
I still am not a fan of downward dog, and likely never will be. I just don't do well with my head pointing down. It is getting easier though. I'm also a fan of warrior poses. Don't know why, they just feel right.
Writing has been progressing, although it's been 10 days since I've actually written anything. Lots of internal planning I need to get down. I would like my writing brain to stop changing the project though. Latest thing is to spin this world so that the First Peoples of the Americas have a lot more political clout, if not sovereignty. I think I have the basics of how, i.e. what happened differently to make this happen, but I am not sure I want to go there. Don't get me wrong, this is a very interesting idea to me and I love the idea of most of the people in my fictional San Francisco being much more ethnically diverse than is often shown. My current list of characters even supports this: (three white people, three African Americans, two Latina/Asians...okay, two of the white people are supporting characters, but still I am not being as diverse as I assumed.
Anyway, getting back on subject, I like the idea of this California not being run by people of white European dissent, but at the same time I am not qualified to portray or create a possible culture that develops from a Native Tribe or amalgam of several. I could just state this as fact and not go into details, which could work, but it goes deeper than that. Like, even city and street names would need to change cause why would they have Spanish names if the missions never happened or were overthrown? What would the city government be like? What would the technology be like? Or music? Would the city even look anything like the SF I know?
This all seems too big for a first novel.
ETA: And I think I've decided to include First Peoples in positions of power, like a police detective or college professor, and just imply by default that the native folk of the Americas are still around and in positions of authority and power.
So will come the cardio.
I still am not a fan of downward dog, and likely never will be. I just don't do well with my head pointing down. It is getting easier though. I'm also a fan of warrior poses. Don't know why, they just feel right.
Writing has been progressing, although it's been 10 days since I've actually written anything. Lots of internal planning I need to get down. I would like my writing brain to stop changing the project though. Latest thing is to spin this world so that the First Peoples of the Americas have a lot more political clout, if not sovereignty. I think I have the basics of how, i.e. what happened differently to make this happen, but I am not sure I want to go there. Don't get me wrong, this is a very interesting idea to me and I love the idea of most of the people in my fictional San Francisco being much more ethnically diverse than is often shown. My current list of characters even supports this: (three white people, three African Americans, two Latina/Asians...okay, two of the white people are supporting characters, but still I am not being as diverse as I assumed.
Anyway, getting back on subject, I like the idea of this California not being run by people of white European dissent, but at the same time I am not qualified to portray or create a possible culture that develops from a Native Tribe or amalgam of several. I could just state this as fact and not go into details, which could work, but it goes deeper than that. Like, even city and street names would need to change cause why would they have Spanish names if the missions never happened or were overthrown? What would the city government be like? What would the technology be like? Or music? Would the city even look anything like the SF I know?
This all seems too big for a first novel.
ETA: And I think I've decided to include First Peoples in positions of power, like a police detective or college professor, and just imply by default that the native folk of the Americas are still around and in positions of authority and power.
