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Viasmae: an Intrigue
Jun. 25th, 2012 07:45 pmThe lead character of this novel is Selos, a boy who is growing up faster than he wants to. Lately, I have been listening in on his dreams (nightmares) and writing them into the book. Leaves me in a weird place, half in/half out of the Commonwealth Timeline. Finished soon, I hope.
Normally, when writing I slip rather easily into the world that my characters live in. I 'become' Magistri Arrendi, the character who narrates these Histories. (Part of the conceit of these novels is that they are based on documents retrieved by some unstated means from another Timeline; Mr Brosius is the translator. He may very well also be the person doing the retrieving.)
Arrendi must have found these passages hard to write. She is not an atheist, like Selos' father, but she is a very patriotic Commonwealther, and as such is egalitarian to the core. This in spite of her high Rank and Status (or maybe because of them). She must at some point have interviewed Selos very intensively, in order to tell the story (mostly) from his viewpoint. Dreams of this sort, where Gods and Goddesses play with and mess with him, choosing what he will or won't remember and when the knowledge he gains in his dreams will come back to him, would seem to her an abuse of authority and power.
Normally, when writing I slip rather easily into the world that my characters live in. I 'become' Magistri Arrendi, the character who narrates these Histories. (Part of the conceit of these novels is that they are based on documents retrieved by some unstated means from another Timeline; Mr Brosius is the translator. He may very well also be the person doing the retrieving.)
Arrendi must have found these passages hard to write. She is not an atheist, like Selos' father, but she is a very patriotic Commonwealther, and as such is egalitarian to the core. This in spite of her high Rank and Status (or maybe because of them). She must at some point have interviewed Selos very intensively, in order to tell the story (mostly) from his viewpoint. Dreams of this sort, where Gods and Goddesses play with and mess with him, choosing what he will or won't remember and when the knowledge he gains in his dreams will come back to him, would seem to her an abuse of authority and power.
