Lil Status Report

Spring break=me pretending to be a full time writer. I've put in a lot of writing time today. While I don't have an excerpt for you after all, here's where I've been and what I've done today.

Chapters 1 and 2: Complete
Chapters 3 and 4: 3 scenes in need of deep revision

Issues: Think about how to handle POV. This book may need to have more of a sense of narrator, given you have a lot of POV going on.

Well, I'm going to send out some short story feedback, and then I'm going to knock off a while.

Hope your day is going well.

Catherine

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.

Getting to Know Your Creative Demon, Part 3

From over at Matt Cardin's journal, Getting to Know Your Creative Demon, Part 3, part of the ongoing exploratory series.

I'm off to research cold land masses. That is all.

Catherine

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Research Post: Hardangervidda, Peneplains and Elves

The first two new scenes feature a horse chase across a winter landscape. Alfheim is patterned on Scandinavia, and I am looking for places to have such a chase. Which is why you get this exciting entry on Hardangervidda.

Ready? Here we go.

What I needed was a flat feature of lands embedded in mountains. A cave in the ice is a feature I intend to add in myself. What looks promising?

Hardangerjokulen. If the glacier is good enough for George Lucas in The Empire Strikes Back, it's good enough for me. This travelogue shows some beautiful pictures of the area.

The glacier itself is situated in Hardangervidda, a peneplain. Peneplains are one of geography's little controversies. The theory is that erosion causes these sorts of plains to build up near sea level. The lack of formations of peneplains in this time, though, casts some doubt upon that theory. Most peneplains are old, and they have been uplifted through orogenic (mountain forming) activity.

In 1981, Norway created this area into a national park. Apparently, there are loads of activities to do all year around. In winter, snow activities are king. In summer, the hikers and fish enthusiasts come out.

If you're interested in getting there, Hardangervidda is between Bergen and Oslo, sort of on the way. I think, geographically, this will do quite nicely.

And it should also do quite nicely for tomorrow's writing session(s).

Catherine

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Vicarious Living Through Traveling Friends, Norway Style

Julie Rose sends along a link to another gorgeous candidate for frost elf chases: the Myrdal Plateau. Of course, there is a gallery of gorgeous pictures from the trip as well. Thanks to both Julie and Craig for letting me link. Some of these pictures are breathtaking.

Some more Norway pictures can be found at Tifosi, the soccer blog my friend Prairie writes. There's a lot of soccer in here, but also some country capturing pictures.

I'd really like to see this stuff for real. Probably not in time to do any good for this manuscript, but maybe I can rig something for the sequel.

Catherine

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.