Fic update
Nov. 8th, 2005 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's not going to be 50k. It might make 30k. I decided to write reasonably self-contained chapters that could in theory be parceled off as short stories, so I can add more.
It's fun, which is good. I keep having ideas, which is good. I keep not knowing what background (both metaphysics and character) I've introduced and not.
Names
Because it's fun, I'll appeal to my friends for names. I'm rather bad at this bit. I have *some* names I love, but tend heavily to the Capitalised Noun sort, because that's easy (as anyone I've DM'd[1] knows.)
Placeholder name: Ice
Eisvale (Eisval) is a city of magi. Ice was apprenticed as a young teenager to a master magus there. She was fascinated by the workings of magic, and learned everything she could.
His other apprentice was Seaflake. They became friends and lovers. However, as a young woman Ice left the city for several years to persue researches across the continent. Seaflake took this hard, it led to a falling out, and eventually a bitter rivalry.
Now Ice is an important magus in the city, but concerned that she seems to be tied there, and that this restricts her true learning. She's briefly corresponded with Gya, and introduced to the story when Gerald appears on her doorstep saying (1) Gya would like to develop a regular trade route between the cities and (2) he left flewt singing lullabies to a cave full of shadow creatures, could she please zot them?
What name(s) should I use?
[1] Any 'o' is entirely metaphorical.
It's not going to be 50k. It might make 30k. I decided to write reasonably self-contained chapters that could in theory be parceled off as short stories, so I can add more.
It's fun, which is good. I keep having ideas, which is good. I keep not knowing what background (both metaphysics and character) I've introduced and not.
Names
Because it's fun, I'll appeal to my friends for names. I'm rather bad at this bit. I have *some* names I love, but tend heavily to the Capitalised Noun sort, because that's easy (as anyone I've DM'd[1] knows.)
Placeholder name: Ice
Eisvale (Eisval) is a city of magi. Ice was apprenticed as a young teenager to a master magus there. She was fascinated by the workings of magic, and learned everything she could.
His other apprentice was Seaflake. They became friends and lovers. However, as a young woman Ice left the city for several years to persue researches across the continent. Seaflake took this hard, it led to a falling out, and eventually a bitter rivalry.
Now Ice is an important magus in the city, but concerned that she seems to be tied there, and that this restricts her true learning. She's briefly corresponded with Gya, and introduced to the story when Gerald appears on her doorstep saying (1) Gya would like to develop a regular trade route between the cities and (2) he left flewt singing lullabies to a cave full of shadow creatures, could she please zot them?
What name(s) should I use?
[1] Any 'o' is entirely metaphorical.