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A glorious return
Jul. 11th, 2014 06:18 pmI had entirely forgotten that I had this journal until I started wanting somewhere other than facebook for my rambling. I have the horrible suspicion that there are several such neglected sets of rambling out there in the depths of the internet.
So, this will hopefully be, once more, somewhere to muse on the deep, the meaningful, and the utterly random parts of life. Creativity, sexuality, politics, all those fun things. Starting with a cross post from the nano boards.
I've had a vague bunny floating around my head for a while, not even a bunny really, more like the kernel of something that might become a bunny if enough ideas stick to it.
It comes from the fact that I'm wanting to stretch my sci-fi wings again (soft, definitely soft. Although I have a science background, my physics will not hold up to trying to write hard sci-fi) and has been fed by starting to re-read Ann McCaffrey's Pern series - one of those series that I always put off starting when I was younger because there was SO much of it, and somehow have only read bits of even 20 years later. The world has two moons, because that is the image in my head, with a third satellite which passes more regularly than every 200 years, possibly once a decade. This satellite affects the tides of the planet and the people as well.
We're not talking Thread here, rather more dramatic tides, a greater potential for natural disasters. I have a reasonable idea of how it would affect the planet. What I am dithering on is how it would affect the people. I am thinking that the people affected are women (the whole lunar cycle association) and children conceived/born during the proximity of this satellite. What I am not entirely certain of is HOW. Something niggling at the back of my mind says look at psychic phenomena, but it doesn't suggest how to link that to the changes. The cultural situation seems to be very patriarchal and misogynistic, to the extent that women are shut away 'for their own good' during these times and are likewise forbidden from trying to conceive children.
My plot would almost certainly revolve around one of these special individuals but I don't have a clear idea of it, or the character yet. I realise that it also has shades of Misty Lackey and Andre Norton's Halfblood Chronicles.
I suppose what I'm doing here (aside from getting my thoughts in order) is wondering whether anyone but me finds the idea interesting, whether it is too derivative, whether it is worth trying to flesh this out into a full bunny for anything more than a short story purely for my own entertainment.
So, this will hopefully be, once more, somewhere to muse on the deep, the meaningful, and the utterly random parts of life. Creativity, sexuality, politics, all those fun things. Starting with a cross post from the nano boards.
I've had a vague bunny floating around my head for a while, not even a bunny really, more like the kernel of something that might become a bunny if enough ideas stick to it.
It comes from the fact that I'm wanting to stretch my sci-fi wings again (soft, definitely soft. Although I have a science background, my physics will not hold up to trying to write hard sci-fi) and has been fed by starting to re-read Ann McCaffrey's Pern series - one of those series that I always put off starting when I was younger because there was SO much of it, and somehow have only read bits of even 20 years later. The world has two moons, because that is the image in my head, with a third satellite which passes more regularly than every 200 years, possibly once a decade. This satellite affects the tides of the planet and the people as well.
We're not talking Thread here, rather more dramatic tides, a greater potential for natural disasters. I have a reasonable idea of how it would affect the planet. What I am dithering on is how it would affect the people. I am thinking that the people affected are women (the whole lunar cycle association) and children conceived/born during the proximity of this satellite. What I am not entirely certain of is HOW. Something niggling at the back of my mind says look at psychic phenomena, but it doesn't suggest how to link that to the changes. The cultural situation seems to be very patriarchal and misogynistic, to the extent that women are shut away 'for their own good' during these times and are likewise forbidden from trying to conceive children.
My plot would almost certainly revolve around one of these special individuals but I don't have a clear idea of it, or the character yet. I realise that it also has shades of Misty Lackey and Andre Norton's Halfblood Chronicles.
I suppose what I'm doing here (aside from getting my thoughts in order) is wondering whether anyone but me finds the idea interesting, whether it is too derivative, whether it is worth trying to flesh this out into a full bunny for anything more than a short story purely for my own entertainment.
