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What Is He Writing?
12 years ago
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Since I've been asked a few times, I figured I'd try to synopsize what I'm writing for this year's National Novel Writing Month (aka "NaNoWriMo").
I'm working on the fourth and final book in a series.
The first in the series is called "filk". The second is called "furry". The third is called "fest". This one is called "fen".
The idea is that the myths of old, the folklore and tales we've told each other since the dawn of time, are real entities. Most cannot see or interact with them. But they are forged by human expectation and belief. These are the Legends.
But there are other beings: faceless monsters that feed on imagination and creativity. These things, called the wertham, are monsters who, every few hundred or thousand years, return in mass to try and corral creativity in mortal-kind, destroy the Legends, and make the world ... safer (if a lot more boring and predictable).
The story starts with a single human, very withdrawn and shy, discovering fandom at the same time as the wertham are returning. It is the story about how he becomes a herald for the coming war and alerts others around him about the threat. "filk" takes place mostly within the filk fandom.
The second story is about the first mortal soldiers drafted into the war. They are furries and the Legend who recruits them is the French folklore hero, Reynard the Fox. It is a story about training for battle and fighting a war.
The third story is about the mortals who are getting tired of taking orders from the Legends and who take up the Generalship of the battles. It centers on a group of fans who are part of the renaissance festival circuit and follows the themes of leadership and politics.
The fourth and final story, "fen" takes its name from the old fandom word for "a group of fans". It's a term used only within the fandom. A group of fans is "fen". And it deals with a group of fans, at the end of the war, having to find a way to end it as they grow tired and worn down by the years of conflict that have gone by.
Occasionally, this month, I'll LiveStream my progress. So far, so good. As of Noon, today, I've completed 10,182 words. While it varies widely by printing format, a rule-of-thumb is that there are (very roughly) 250 words/page in a paperback.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
I'm working on the fourth and final book in a series.
The first in the series is called "filk". The second is called "furry". The third is called "fest". This one is called "fen".
The idea is that the myths of old, the folklore and tales we've told each other since the dawn of time, are real entities. Most cannot see or interact with them. But they are forged by human expectation and belief. These are the Legends.
But there are other beings: faceless monsters that feed on imagination and creativity. These things, called the wertham, are monsters who, every few hundred or thousand years, return in mass to try and corral creativity in mortal-kind, destroy the Legends, and make the world ... safer (if a lot more boring and predictable).
The story starts with a single human, very withdrawn and shy, discovering fandom at the same time as the wertham are returning. It is the story about how he becomes a herald for the coming war and alerts others around him about the threat. "filk" takes place mostly within the filk fandom.
The second story is about the first mortal soldiers drafted into the war. They are furries and the Legend who recruits them is the French folklore hero, Reynard the Fox. It is a story about training for battle and fighting a war.
The third story is about the mortals who are getting tired of taking orders from the Legends and who take up the Generalship of the battles. It centers on a group of fans who are part of the renaissance festival circuit and follows the themes of leadership and politics.
The fourth and final story, "fen" takes its name from the old fandom word for "a group of fans". It's a term used only within the fandom. A group of fans is "fen". And it deals with a group of fans, at the end of the war, having to find a way to end it as they grow tired and worn down by the years of conflict that have gone by.
Occasionally, this month, I'll LiveStream my progress. So far, so good. As of Noon, today, I've completed 10,182 words. While it varies widely by printing format, a rule-of-thumb is that there are (very roughly) 250 words/page in a paperback.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
