First things first: COLLEGE SEARCH. Bottom line: Covenant's campus preview weekend was amazing, I loved it, but I'm still not sure if Covenant is where God wants me. There: easy to explain, not so easy to decide. Oh well. I'll keep you posted.
On to writingness!
Avaria homework: basically my homework was to go through the entire series and make a list of absolutely essential characters. The others may or may not get cut. To be perfectly honest, this is kind of killing me. One of the best things about writing Avaria was creating characters. I think I took it to an extreme. There are a LOT of characters in Avaria. Most of them are underdeveloped; a
In other news: The Thirteen Tales of Solomon Wise is petering along. I'm plotting right now, trying to sure up some weaker parts of the story while exploring my new characters' different stories and motives. I'm also trying to wrap my mind around the idea of time travel. It's pretty hard when even the concept of time zones doesn't make sense to me. I'm trying really hard not to mess it up or get lazy and settle for a mediocre explanation. I'm also trying to figure out just how time travel will work in a Biblical worldview; can people go back in time to right wrongs they did and be the masters of their own destinies? I don't think so, and that's certainly not how I'm planning to portray my take on time travel, but there's going to be a very fine line I'll have to walk when I finally start writing. Still, it's exciting to be working on a new idea.
And finally (speaking of new ideas) I've really been playing around with a dystopian idea lately. I'm not exactly sure where it's going, but I'm relying heavily on the concept of Farenheit 451 (which I have yet to read). I, for one, can't imagine living in a place without books which are free to the public, and I think it would be interesting to create a world where this is reality, and explore what it would mean to the society in which the characters function. Also, one of the things I loved most about The Hunger Games was the huge influence Collins showed the a corrupt government can have, even to the point of making children slaughter each other while facing very little resistance from the general population. In The Hunger Games, the Capitol was a very real and vicious villian, having the face of President Snow but consisting of something much larger and more deadly. I'd like to explore a sort of "government villian" for this idea without suggesting anarchy or anything extreme as an alternative. Again, another fine line to walk. Gah.
That's about all I have for you, though I did write a short poem I figured I tack on to the end of this post (since technically this is a writing blog and this will be the first piece of writing I've posted in a few months). I hope you enjoy and I also hope you had a blessed Easter with family, friends and the breathtaking reality that WE have come to life through Christ's rising from the dead!
~Elisabeth
Blue
Come
swimming, come swimming
Come
swimming in blue
For
I’m still your true love
And
have searched far for you
I
went sailing, went sailing
Went
sailing on blue
And
I said I’d be back
Said
I’d be back for you
It
was storming, was storming
It
was storming deep blue
On
the night that I died
Died
thinking of you
I
was floating, was floating
Was
floating in blue
In
celestial light
Where
the soft seaweed grew
Now
I’m dreaming, I’m dreaming
I
dream all in blue
But
I’m still your true love
And
dream only of you.
