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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Sigh.
So I have two long gaps in my story, one of about four years, one of 14 years. Not sure yet how to handle them.
I did, however, just make notes of how old all my characters are at various times. It’s a little confusing as some start out older than others and end up younger.
You could write very long walking scenes.
Er... not really...
What sort of walking scene, precious?
(currently dealing with baseball derangement syndrome here... nevermind me.)
Ok, could use a plot point help:
I have a situation where my main character has just given birth. I need a good reason why her baby might have to spend hours away from her immediately, without being too ill, and without it being something that would have also affected her.
Also is it even conceivably possible for her to get up less than twelve hours after giving birth, drive twenty+ miles, and then walk at least a mile?
I just did. Now I just need to come up with some ideas.
Is it an early birth or full-term?
Yay!
What sort of stuff do you write, anyway?
And don’t worry. Plenty of us have had no clue what to write on October 31st and started writing November 1 anyway.
Hmm. It was going to be full term but could be a bit early. Not so early as to require life support machines though because she needs to be convinced that someone has stolen her child and she has to retrieve it.
ROFL - "...and I shall pet him and hold him and squeeze him and love him and he'll be my BEST FRIEND!!"
...and that's the G-rated version...
Something MANLY...so I dont think my original name (Liam) would really work, would it? LOL
I so want to make him Australian...
Right now I’m writing a story (fiction, but partially based on real life) about travelling back in time. I used real names of places and people, including my own real name, so I’m not sure how comfortable I am with sharing it here. For the story in November I will come up with a completely new idea.
I have a lot of stuff at the beginning that’s fairly well planned, then a very sudden “and thenallkindastuffhappens, andtheyalllivedhappilyeverafter” sort of thing. :-\ I don’t know how I’ll get the not-murderer off and the murderer convicted and certain peoples married off and all.
Whoohooo! Welcome to crazy!
Jaundice or PPHN might do it.
Well...I actually really like Liam...but my family isn’t known for fine taste in names. ;-)
Australian is so yummy.
A lot has to do with one’s own associations with a name, too. I worked with a Garrett...so I’d have a hard time writing a character without him slowly morphing into that guy, for better or for worse. Even if I liked the person a lot, I’d feel a little funny about, say, writing little lovey-dovey lines for ‘em.
It’s why I’ve never used the name Tim or Timothy, though I do like the name. Among others.
Other Irish names I like are Pearce, Redmond, Riordan, Sean, Brendan, Brian, Connor, Davin, Desmond, Emmet, High, Kevan,
Ohgoodgrief, can you tell I have a list?
In other news, we learned that Garrett (Gerrit) is a veeeeey old family name. Found it in some geneology records.
Though...come to think of it, I guess I know people by most of the names I’m using in my story. So maybe that’s only true for a few names.
I’d still want to use certain names only for people very unlike the real life people.
Not Freudian, I promise.
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