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About This Author
Absolute beginner, Reader, Reviewer, ESL writer, Poet, Blogger, Novelist, Published author, Psychology degree, Dog lover. Quill finalist
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All fingers and thumbs
A blog on my personal writing process. Just random thoughts, notes, and other stuff. Don’t know yet what that will be like. Am exploring possibilities and pulse towards an unknown future. Let’s find out! Here are challenges and activities stored.
"Invalid Item"  2017
"The Soundtrack of Your Life" 2020
"Resurrection Jukebox" 2020
"NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon" 2020/21
"The Fiction Writer's Toolbox" 2020
"October Novel Prep Challenge" 2021(The Shanhaijing Prophecy)
Neil Gaiman's Masterclass 2019
"a very Wodehouse challenge" 2024
Template Worldbuilding 2024
"Barrel of Monkeys" [E] 2024
September 29, 2021 at 5:31am September 29, 2021 at 5:31am
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PREP Challenge OCTOBER
Working Title: The Shanhaijing Prophecy or The Modern World Monsters.
PLOT1 & 2 interwoven.
Plot1: A 2020-year-old Chinese book shows up at an auction. The main character, Wolf Meyer buys it cheap because no one recognizes its significance to the world. He meets a girl, Poppy Ryan. Strange events occur in their lives (the house is suddenly set on fire, pets disappear, the main character experiences occult phenomenons like knocking sounds in the middle of the night, pawprints in the bathroom, reflections in mirrors). Together they investigate in China. They meet monsters. Book predicts a deadline for a major disaster that hits their city (Los Angeles?) and will kill many people. Can they stop the prophecy?
Plot2: The story of the ancient book Shanhaijing, The Book of Mountains and Seas revealed. An extraordinary encyclopedia containing strange and terrifying creatures that the Ancient Chinese believed existed on Earth.
Bibliography
The Mythology Bible (2009) by Sarah Bartlett p.292-293
China, Lonely Planet, 2017
USA, Lonely Planet, 2004
The book of Mountains and Seas, 1999, Penguin Classic
https://karkadann.fandom.com/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas
https://totallyhistory.com/shan-hai-jing/
https://novelmao.com/chapter/world-of-immortals-shan-hai-jing-1/
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September 24, 2021 at 1:40pm September 24, 2021 at 1:40pm September 10, 2021 at 5:03pm September 10, 2021 at 5:03pm
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I signed in for to plan my NaNoWriMo novel in October before writing it in November. An ambitious plan this year. Especially since I haven't done much writing, not even in my blog.
But I want to be prepared.
Last year I just wrote a novel in 30 days flying by the seat of my pants, this year I want to do more research in advance. I am very curious about what that will bring me. Which take will work the best for me?
I've got a working title: Shanhaijing Now. Reference to a very famous Asian book from decades ago. The Shanhaijing, The Book of Mountains and Seas may be more than 2,000 years old. It's an extraordinary encyclopedia containing strange and terrifying creatures that the Ancient Chinese believed existed on Earth. (The Mythology Bible by Sarah Bartlett, p. 292-293}
https://karkadann.fandom.com/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas
Why this title?
It just sounds good.
I don't know. I may change it during these two months.
It can be an action novel, a cultural and mysterious story. That's all I got so far.
worldbuilding template
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragons intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." ― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles |
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