Periphery

Impressionism / Nicolae Grigorescu/ Oxcart

Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Granted, I'm just living in the red, but the climb out has begun and really shouldn't be all that bad. 

I gotta start figuring out WTF I am going to do for Christmas.  Gotta figure out the interface between myself and family better than what I do now.  I am feeling that as individuals, the family is just fine.  But we are the type of family where the more of us are in the room at the same time, the faster the dysfunctionality ratchets up.

I am putting myself on a concert/going out diet for the next two months.  That is going to be hard, but $$ need to be directed to more pressing issues than that.  I am kinda depressed.

Screed:

Now that I have stepped in it, I have to spend the rest of the month figuring out how to insert a peripheral storyline into the WoH canon.  I do trust that JMG realizes that by giving the likes of me permission to undertake such a mad gesture, I will need to get a bunch of things laid down first. I will need to fully define timelines, where the line is for infringing on his world, try to figure out which new characters/gods/protagonists into the mix and a whole bunch of other things that I haven't even gotten to the stage of "Oh Shit, I forgot about that!!!".

But, in a lot of ways, by JMG's gracious gift of allowing us to work within the parameter of his alt-alternative universe, it actually clears up a lot of issues and allows a firmer grasp of potentials than trying to work out the whole thing on your own.  By providing me the framework, he has made things so much easier.

First step will be a review session.  I am thinking that it is time to trot out my Lovecraft collection on the trusty fourth-generation Kindle and get to work on researching the potential.  I am also afraid that rereading the WoH sequence will be required.   I (gasp) will probably have to even do outlines and start on something resembling a bibliography.  While my experience is with the Lovecraft work, I think that I will need to do reading of the folks that fed or fed off off Lovecraft's vision. 

So, what I am thinking is the creation of a separate page here at Dreamwidth to keep this stuff separate from this page.  Doing fiction is one thing, doing my diary is another.

So tonight, when I finish my bowl of beans with a hamhock and down my Manhattan (made with a particularly good batch of my moonshine), I will sit down and get to work