Writing the current country is coming slowly. I have yet to settle on a name which I like for it. For a while it was Anthuer – but I have several “A” names already and I didn’t particularly like the name anyways. At the moment it is Tav’uran. As I posted previously, this culture is built around their battles with demons and I have been playing with the idea that they leave a part of their name out in order to help hide themselves from the demons (or so the superstition goes). The asterisk indicates where a syllable has been removed from a name to conceal the “real” name. However, I am well aware that sticking asterisks into names is a fairly common and sometimes annoying fantasy trope, and I have not decided whether to stick with it or not.
At any rate, the story is coming slightly faster than the “facts” about the country – mostly because I had so much of it figured out ahead of time from my dream. I am almost done with the first draft of it. It would be good, I think, to work on the county entry before I start rewriting the story, so that I can allow that work to flesh out the world of the story.
All the writing has been slowed down, as I am still in beading mania, (as of tonight I have the bulk of it done and tomorrow will start actually sewing the dress again,) and am preparing for Norwescon. Once all that excitement is over it will be time to buckle down to rewriting the Eonian tale besides finishing Tav’uran or whatever it is going to be called.
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