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singelisilverslippers replied to your post “singelisilverslippers replied to your post “you just shake it until…”
i mean, hats off to you, i feel like i’m gifted with these lovely little plot bunnies that i just keep embroidering in my brain until i can go there in an instant and i know the shades of mood, the turns of phrase, the emotional beats, etc. am i capable of writing ANY of them down? nope. i’m sure whatever you choose to work on next is going to be magnificent!
At the moment it feels like all I really want to do is immerse myself in a world where people live differently from here and like, I get it, but that is not really telling a story other people can follow along to, right? Argh.
girderednerve replied to your post “you just shake it until it starts rattling and eventually something…”
also extremely enthused about the viking one (!!!), and i hope your other obligations go well
Thanks!
I was only sort of interested in the vikings one until I was like, oh, make it gay? hm that could be fun, and then suddenly I was like (ok I work next to a… it’s sort of a daycare and sort of OT I think and specifically focused on making art? for adults with brain injuries and developmental disabilities so I think about super-disabled people kind of a lot because I have to walk past picture-windowed rooms [the windows are decorated with their art and it is fantastic] full of them having fun every morning between the parking lot and my office and I know, it’s delightful and I’m lucky and it means i think about this stuff a lot) wait there are never super-disabled people in Fantasy Viking stories but we know from archaeology that despite the custom of exposing unwanted infants real Viking-age Norse routinely cared for disabled children and adults well past the point of them being “””useful””” in society and so obviously there’d be disabled people and then suddenly the brother existed more or less fully-formed and is probably going to be the key to the whole story somehow.
But, he does mean I have to do research, because walking past some disabled people five times a week doesn’t mean I know jack or shit about a nonverbal autistic man in a premodern society and what sorts of accommodations his loving sister would be able to acquire in an unsupportive vs supportive environment. But like, there’s most of my setting structure, right there, because to answer those questions I need to give such pivotal details. It’s like, the whole handle to the story. (Because, obvi, her old home wasn’t that supportive and she had to fight and advocate for him all the time, and the new home, whence she’s been kidnapped by these savages, wins her over by being a lot more supportive and maybe the Marauder With A Heart Of Gold has a similarly-disabled relative or neighbor or something, and instantly gets what his deal is and is like oh well obviously I’m not going to swordfight this strangely-behaving man because I see what the deal is here and what’s more I know how to act like a reasonable person and not yell at him, so calm down alarmingly-buff lady with the forge hammer and let’s talk this over because you look hella useful and also hot.) (And then later she can be like listen my nonverbal friend who I’ve figured out how to communicate with, your sister has a real mean temper but I think she’s hot and i know you can tell me what she really wants in life, and he’s like, I vibe with you, sword lady, we’re gonna make this happen.)
singelisilverslippers replied to your post “singelisilverslippers replied to your post “you just shake it until…”
i mean, hats off to you, i feel like i’m gifted with these lovely little plot bunnies that i just keep embroidering in my brain until i can go there in an instant and i know the shades of mood, the turns of phrase, the emotional beats, etc. am i capable of writing ANY of them down? nope. i’m sure whatever you choose to work on next is going to be magnificent!
At the moment it feels like all I really want to do is immerse myself in a world where people live differently from here and like, I get it, but that is not really telling a story other people can follow along to, right? Argh.
girderednerve replied to your post “you just shake it until it starts rattling and eventually something…”
also extremely enthused about the viking one (!!!), and i hope your other obligations go well
Thanks!
I was only sort of interested in the vikings one until I was like, oh, make it gay? hm that could be fun, and then suddenly I was like (ok I work next to a… it’s sort of a daycare and sort of OT I think and specifically focused on making art? for adults with brain injuries and developmental disabilities so I think about super-disabled people kind of a lot because I have to walk past picture-windowed rooms [the windows are decorated with their art and it is fantastic] full of them having fun every morning between the parking lot and my office and I know, it’s delightful and I’m lucky and it means i think about this stuff a lot) wait there are never super-disabled people in Fantasy Viking stories but we know from archaeology that despite the custom of exposing unwanted infants real Viking-age Norse routinely cared for disabled children and adults well past the point of them being “””useful””” in society and so obviously there’d be disabled people and then suddenly the brother existed more or less fully-formed and is probably going to be the key to the whole story somehow.
But, he does mean I have to do research, because walking past some disabled people five times a week doesn’t mean I know jack or shit about a nonverbal autistic man in a premodern society and what sorts of accommodations his loving sister would be able to acquire in an unsupportive vs supportive environment. But like, there’s most of my setting structure, right there, because to answer those questions I need to give such pivotal details. It’s like, the whole handle to the story. (Because, obvi, her old home wasn’t that supportive and she had to fight and advocate for him all the time, and the new home, whence she’s been kidnapped by these savages, wins her over by being a lot more supportive and maybe the Marauder With A Heart Of Gold has a similarly-disabled relative or neighbor or something, and instantly gets what his deal is and is like oh well obviously I’m not going to swordfight this strangely-behaving man because I see what the deal is here and what’s more I know how to act like a reasonable person and not yell at him, so calm down alarmingly-buff lady with the forge hammer and let’s talk this over because you look hella useful and also hot.) (And then later she can be like listen my nonverbal friend who I’ve figured out how to communicate with, your sister has a real mean temper but I think she’s hot and i know you can tell me what she really wants in life, and he’s like, I vibe with you, sword lady, we’re gonna make this happen.)
