Diversion

[degringolade]

Surrealism / Kay Sage/ Danger, Construction Ahead

Well:  Since the four hours of sleep are now two days past, I woke up feeling somewhat refreshed.  I think that one of the "tells" for being aged is the length of recovery time grows.  Yesterday was being a good dad and visits, but I can tell you true, I was already in bed by halftime of the Seahawks game.

Screed:

Now, he ain't quite my guru, but JMG is a regular read of mine.  I have a feeling should we ever choose to have an in-person conversation, if we aren't careful about monitoring our alcohol consumption, discussion could turn toward intemperate quarrels, but in writing, I get along with him just fine.  So let's talk about writing

Last week I asked bluntly (as I am not equipped to ask any other way) if I could latch, remora-like, onto his "Weird of Hali" storyline.  This was  in the Open Thread over at Dreamwidth (Note to self:  Never again ask to be notified about comments at Ecosophia, politely answering all the questions and comments JMG receives would be well out of my wheelhouse, I shudder to consider the idiotic posts that he just plain deletes)

(look, I just shuddered again)

anyhoooo

What I have been thinking about when I first asked John Michael to use the world the the Weird of Hali is to begin to tie together all the different traditions of "Gods" in the indigenous.  Somewhere in the "Weird", JMG had one of the characters pretty much state that Cthulhu and the King, and the others were the Gods of old religions.  A storyline taking that thought and running with it might be pretty interesting.  Hephaestus comes to mind.  So do Guabancex and Marohu.  

So stories of humans who come into contact with these old gods as they become stronger in the arc of the thirty some odd years that JMG has so conveniently plotted out for us is intriguing to me.  Analogy serving here is John Michael took the liberty of writing the timeline leading up to D-Day.  I want to tell the story of Anzio, or Stalingrad, or Maybe even Patrick Leigh Fermor's tale of kidnapping a German General in Crete.  Something separate, using my own characters and style, with just a sprinkle of the folks JMG calls friends to tie the lines together and make things consistent

So, I will be spending the next little bit trying to plot out a decent story-line and get it settled down comfortably.  I am considering copy-catting JMG in another manner and go all "Stars Reach".  Maybe a chapter a month here or on another Dreamwidth Site. 

Comments

Saw you on Ecosophia!

[(Anonymous)]

Hiya! I'm also a technical writer. My little contribution to the mythos is an adventure module for the WoH RPG. Would you care to talk shop? How can I contact you? Rusty

Re: Saw you on Ecosophia!

[degringolade]

Just shoot a message to me here, it would be double easy if you had a dreamwidth account.

Re: Saw you on Ecosophia!

[degringolade]

Rusty, I am terrible at looking at comments, If you see this, I am at degringolade at dreamwidth, just leave a comment anywhere, I'll see it now I have figured out the comment section.