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A title card for an early revision sneak peek of chapter one of Bright Constant, Deathless. It depicts a bitterly cold bluish snowy landscape with and orange sky.
I used abogen to read a draft chapter of my #fantasy novel for your listening pleasure, unmodified Lewis voice. He has a good delivery to my hypersensitive ears.
A short (8 minute) audio file. Bright Constant, chapter 1, "Deathless." #Shadowlands #BrightConstant
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b2r5f...
Juraira is helped to eat while she nurses baby Nameless, & has intrusive thoughts about boys.
Word is π΄πΆπ³π§π’π€π¦. Tricky to suggest severity of her condition π’π―π₯ the unnatural recovery rate, so she's caught up in sensual impressions in the moment & panics later on. #WIPsnips #BrightConstant #amwriting
Juraira wakes up after several days unconscious due to seizure, to find an improvised shrine, & one of her courtiers waiting for her to wake up.
Today's word is 'approach'. Been wiped right out for a week. Edits, research, & planning going very, very slowly.
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Manushir leads Juraira & Salvi in a session of the 'prince's game', but both are used to more adversarial games. Manushir is more interested in fun & story.
My roommate & I worked out a lineage for TTRPGs in setting. π€£ The prince's game is basically a political war game.
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Juraira experiences a powerful epileptic seizure triggered by trying to use her strange insight & recalls a moment from her teenage years.
Tricky to describe, but the neurology of seizure, hallucination, & dream have always fascinated me.
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Fruit is hard to get in winter without modern agriculture, so how does Golshan's kitchen suck up to a princess who loves fruit? Preserved fruit pulp/juice jellies (like mizu manju).
I wish mightily I had strawberry red bean mochi right now.
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Snippet and first text of the book, the epigraph: "The family was unlucky." βSuyluquz Vazir, from The Cannibal Cup
#DecemberWorldbuilders prompt for week 2, Dec 8, 'family'
#DecemberWorldbuilders has a snippet about family today.
I decided to use the first actual text in the book, a quote. I often use 2 or more, because I like the additional layers of meaning you can get out of relating them to their chapters.
Anyone have thoughts on #epigraphs?
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Fugitive junior judge Manushir doesn't have a lot of friends but towering lady knight Salvi is one of them. As a knight, she expresses her affection through flowery words and actions, and also violence.
No spoons atm.
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A nine foot, jet black stranger kind disguised as a court lady has some thoughts on attaining compliance from people. Notably, throwing scofflaws off a particular tower.
I used 'quarrelsome' because none of my options with 'argue' were interesting at all.
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Juraira & Golshan discuss the ethical approach in a manual Juraira studied about sex & love.
Not shown here: the many boring theological essay questions Juraira had to answer on said manual.
Research was surprisingly boring, but Perfumed Garden yielded some OK euphemisms.
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Vanen has opinions about manners, class, and nonsense. Alalei is trying to seem more presentable.
So much for shorter scenes. And right down to the wire for today. :(
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Juraira is confined to her bed after a strange fit. Her brain spits out uncomfortably sexual thoughts about Alalei, one of her courtiers. Dawa always knows more than he tells.
Too spoonless to add much.
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This looks fun! Wish I saw earlier! π₯΄
There are both chemists & alchemists. Chemists are more the trade, alchemists more the research & theorizing about cosmology.
We meet one chemist, Anar, whose duties run into pharmacist, apothecary, & a little cosmetics. I have π±ππ’π―π΄ for him.
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A traveller Juraira met has a treasure in a world stricken with disease.
Too long! Lesson learned. Synonyms being π£πΆπΊ, π΄π¦ππ, and π±π¦π₯π₯ππ¦.
I tried breaking this into component images. Used a budding plum b/c springtime is coming in this chapter. Link in π§΅.
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Juraira seeks advice from Dawa after an attempt to connect with someone goes awry.
I realised in hindsight Dawa is (unintentionally) inspired by the fox in ππ©π¦ ππͺπ΅π΅ππ¦ ππ³πͺπ―π€π¦, a fox speaking philosophically of his own experience & perspective, marked by loss.
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Manushir discusses the political and psychological applications of magic with Juraira.
I was a lot like Manushir as a thirteen year old, in some waysβintellectual, curious, cynical.
I never put anyone to death or been a fugitive, though, he's got me beat there.
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Juraira reports a sort of vision she had to Alalei to soothe her nerves.
Juraira's confronted by the degree of deprivation Alalei lived with. Sugar was previously quite expensive, often unavailable in some places, and likewise its useful applications.
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Juraira realizes what's wrong with her in ch. 6.
Was fun to imagine where anatomy scholarship came from in my setting, as dissection was not common. Settled on deriving it partly from Egyptian-type embalming. So my Vesalius is Hruret the Cat, surgeon & embalmer's daughter. #WIPsnip #brightconstant
Bright Constant is inspired by my love of history, art history, mythology, folklore, particularly of the Silk Road.
I started working on some ideas while I was studying the art and architecture of West Asia in university.
I am nearing the end of my first draft!
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"ππ°π΅π©πͺπ―π¨ π΄π΅π’πΊπ΄ πΆπ―π₯πͺπ΄π΅πΆπ³π£π¦π₯. ππ°π΅ π¦π·π¦π― π΅π©π¦ π£π°π―π¦π΄ π°π§ π΅π©π¦ π¦π’π³π΅π©."
Even living on sacred ground couldn't keep Juraira safe from a reputed family curse. When a spirit intervenes to save her from death, she finds herself π€π©π’π―π¨π¦π₯, & living in a world more vast & magical than she ever knew.
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