I’ve been splitting my time lately between Fie Eoin and Phooka Tales. With another NaNoWriMo almost upon us I’ve finally let Phooka Tales sit long enough to go back and start editing (and sometimes I just have days where I want a little Brett in my life), but Fie Eoin is my first baby and Kindra and Gar are very demanding. They don’t let FE sit dormant for long. I’ve also been storylining the Apollo and Daphne story, although I still need a name for that one.
This week you are getting almost two stickies for the price of one! How lucky do you feel?
This sticky was written well before the idea for Apollo and Daphne came to be. In fact, this story was written before NaNo last year, because I never did use that bottom half in Phooka Tales. I just wrote down everything that happened in the lab I worked in as inspiration for the story. By the time it came to write PT, I didn’t use most of what I had written down. A large chunk of in-lab storytelling was left by the wayside because it wasn’t as interesting as what happens when the creatures begin appearing. The in-lab stuff was just my cathartic way of dealing with work stress without quitting (or going crazy and seeing creatures myself!). I highly recommend writing stories where you fire all of your co-workers to relieve stress.
The top half of the sticky was me trying to decide how to introduce Gar’s friends into Fie Eoin. At first I had Gar introducing them to her as she joined them for breakfast on her first morning as a Warrior. But then I realized that their village isn’t that large, and Kindra would already know all of his friends from childhood. So I needed a new way to introduce them. I used the same part of the story to introduce the different groups in Fie Eoin – the senior warriors, the new warriors, the women and what they do while all the warriors are out being warriors all day. I think you can tell that the warriors are my favorite part.