Adracanta - Introduction: Creation Myth - rewrite

Still working on this. It's hard to get a balance between not being too repetitve but still preserving the sense of it being an ancient myth - a fireside tale for an elder to repeat. It needs to have the repetitive cadence and sense of oral tradition rather than a formal story and even a sense that it might be allegorical rather than literal. It needs to have an "in the beginning" feel and part of that, I think, is a sense of a repetitive theme - especially when you're talking about a recurring action - like the creation of each dragon line

But at the same time I don't want the reader to feel they can skip vast portions of it and not miss anything, which, before you could. So here's the next draft that I will poke later

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Spark in Darkness #89 - life in Camaalis castle - Rich and Darren hitting the books

One advantage of writing again? Even when I write something unrelated, it stimulates

This? Well, more drek - but it’s Spark in Darkness drek which I flung onto the page as soon as it was there because it meant it was MOVING again! PRAISE THE MUSES!


Spark in Darkness #89 - life in Camaalis castle - Rich and Darren hitting the books
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