Summer Fun Run. No, really...

Okay, so .. SFFmuse is doing a summer fun run. This means 60L in June/July, for moi. I have the novel idea. I have a plot. I have characters.

Now, if only it would leave me alone so I could edit Waking The Dead in peace! But since it will not ....

What kind of power do words have that don't exist, that aren't real? Invented ones for dinctionaries, for example. Or those that enter into pop culture? I don't know, yet, but it's part of the plot. It's there, somewhere, in the fact that words are magic and names a deeper magic still. That, in the end, names have power, perhaps all the power there is. To name something is to define it. Hence when the Unnamed is a deposed god, perhaps.

More: Love takes work. Real love lies in having the courage to see someone as themself, not as the myth/story you build up around them. What happpens to people when the myth is taken away? Or when people change, and forget to tell each other? What do you do when the loving is over - is friendship enough? Can you base Forever on that?

There are as many ways to die as there are ways to live. And there's both the same thing. We change, when we're alive. Even after we're dead, we change, if only in the minds of the living when they find our poodle porn collection. We never stop changing. So what is death, besides just another world, another step? It's just a part of Being. There is Being, and there is Unbeing. The rest is semantics. Or perhaps magic.

So magic is, then, change. It's the space between things, where the cracks meet: the hidden places of the worlds. Even in the subtle worlds, real magic is rare. Everyone has tricks, sure, but no one has miracles, except Witches and the like, and they pay higher prices than many ever know.

Which brings us back to sacrifice. Because there are some that shouldn't have to be paid, prices no one should have asked of them, things that should never be seen. How far can one person go for love, for family? Does it outweigh honour? What happens if it means destroying all the myths about yourself you made?

There are other questions. But, for now, I think I have a few out of my system to let roam around and poke at again later.

Back to editing.