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charameiThe birth of this year's NaNovel, a ten-step process:
Current first words: 'Rosy-fingered dawn'
First word should be: 'Fog'. The first word of ancient poetry is always the most important, after all*
Number of people likely to interact with a wine-dark sea: Three, currently
Arming sequences: Prooobably none
Number of times I have confusedhumble_yoghurt by rambling incoherently about Greeks and evil fog: 3
Number of words in English for fog: About ten, maybe twenty if you stretch your definitions a bit
Number of words in Greek for fog: One (ομιχλη)
*Iliad: 'wrath'. Odyssey: 'man'. Aeneid: 'arms' (in the sense of 'weaponry'). Propertius, elegy: 'Cynthia'. Ovid, elegy: er, 'arms' again. Insert fangirling of Ovid's wilful and intentional subversion of the literary conventions of his time here.
- Ugh, another humid summer. Yuck. Humidity is evil.
- Some subconscious connection between 'humidity', 'fog', 'pollution' and the Greek μιασμα, which means pollution in a moral sense but has included in that definition a sense of pervading doom hanging over a person/family/city. The House of Atreus has a μιασμα, for example.
- Evil Ancient Greek humidity! Clearly I am a genius.
- Need a protagonist... oh, hello, protagonist. I shall call you Hero. Here, have a Mentor. He's a philosopher and probably also bumming you, this being classical Greece and all.
- Wonder what's causing the fog...?
- Volcanoes? There must have been an Athenian colony on a volcanic island by the height of the Delian league, right? *researches*
- ...no, Hero, your Athenian-style democracy does not have a king, and he is certainly not doing his own mother. You moron. Why are you the Hero again?
- AND WHAT'S THE FOG DOING THERE?
- Ohhh! My three alternate plots all join up into one coherent narrative if I just sort of do that instead of this...
- Hero, you are boring and an idiot and shall henceforth be relegated to Support Bumsex. Mentor, you have been promoted.
Current first words: 'Rosy-fingered dawn'
First word should be: 'Fog'. The first word of ancient poetry is always the most important, after all*
Number of people likely to interact with a wine-dark sea: Three, currently
Arming sequences: Prooobably none
Number of times I have confused
humble_yoghurt by rambling incoherently about Greeks and evil fog: 3Number of words in English for fog: About ten, maybe twenty if you stretch your definitions a bit
Number of words in Greek for fog: One (ομιχλη)
*Iliad: 'wrath'. Odyssey: 'man'. Aeneid: 'arms' (in the sense of 'weaponry'). Propertius, elegy: 'Cynthia'. Ovid, elegy: er, 'arms' again. Insert fangirling of Ovid's wilful and intentional subversion of the literary conventions of his time here.