Tag: research

thelastjedicritical:

So er… I’m looking for a quote that talks about two people on a journey together and it should be somewhat epic. Do you guys know one? I keep looking and I just find nothing that fits :/

Here’s a poem by Herman Hesse, although it puts more emphasis on rest than travel.

Here’s a poem by Emily Dickinson, maybe more odd and pensive than epic because it’s Emily Dickinson lol.

There’s also a song called Rocketeer by Far East Movement that talks about a journey. The song would be excellent for a Finnrey vid, actually.

This is a really interesting challenge! I could suss out a few more if you give me a more specific idea of the sort of thing you’re looking for.

Past prologue

I’ve never been very big on writing prologues, but I ended up writing one this time around because I just couldn’t make the central conflict work without dealing with the death of the protagonist’s brother in some way. Call it a prologue or an opening scene set in the past before a time skip, it’s what I’m going with for now. But I’ve changed the opening so many times, who knows if I’ll stick with this one.

Part of the reason I was hesitant to write this scene is because it would include a suicide which would be a grim way to start, but it is a grim scene in general. I’ll have to check and see if ritual/grief suicide could have been a thing in my time period, but I think I can get away with one guy killing himself as opposed to hundreds of men committing group suicide for a dead king around 3 centuries later.

I’ve started logging my work, and today’s output was about 600 words an hour after a little less than an hour of writing. It’s a pleasant pace for me–much slower than that and it means I’m stuck, much faster and I could burn out like I did after Camp NaNo 2014. I could reach my daily goal of 500 words a day in around an hour’s time, which seems realistic enough to aim for without exhausting myself.

I also read more of a book I checked out on ancient place name etymologies and finished the chapter on research methods. The systematic 20-step approach to recreating ancient place names pleases me–there’s a lot of junk etymology out there and it’s good to see a scientific approach that isn’t a leap off the deep end of logic or a jingoistic hard-on. I really want to read more books at the school library before my contract runs out this fall.