So, I thought, since there was interest, I would share with you the summary for Confictionary Tales. I am very excited with the shape this project is taking. Now I just have to figure out how to make it work. I am finally starting to see it take shape in my minds eye, though, and that is very exciting! So, here is the summary in all it’s raw glory. I hope you enjoy!
In a time that has changed the very words they use, not to mention the changes that have come to those who have survived, food is not as it once was, and flavors have melded together, not to mention food is not called by the same names anymore.
This means that our hopeful untried chef must brave failures on their own, without grandmother’s pages to guide. What few pages are left, are using antiquated names that are hard to understand and figure out, the language lost.
Knowing that if they are ever to create a name for themselves they must first figure out the lost recipes from grandmothers book, they set out to explore and create. One page, one recipe at a time, they hone their skills.
With both failures and great successes, they find their way to crafting the family heritage. Food that both sustains and heals. Food that expresses the joys of family and the test of time.
There are many ideas on this taking shape, but I am still working through the details! What do you think? Does this sound like a cookbook and tale you would enjoy? What do you think would make it better? How do you see it working best? Please share in the comments below!
Well, I had plans about what I wanted to post today, but… it was one of those days! Honestly, it has been one of those months lately! While I have all these wonderful creatures to dance and play with. Having spent time with the dryads and nymphs. Swimming with the mermaids, riding the unicorns, and hiding from the harpies, the words have just been elusive!
It is camp! Time to write with this literary abandon! Enjoy the journey and travel out with my characters wherever the trail leads, and yet… here I stand. My tent is pitched, I have my hiking gear one, and an awesome bag of trail mix, not to mention the great map with tons of trails to explore, and yet… it would seem that Melody really doesn’t want to come out to play!
I am at a loss! I have tried everything I can think of to entice her out. Yet the story still sits there! three scenes total! That is all I really have left. Maybe four, if I want to add a bit more to the framework. That is nothing! Ten thousand words I figured, no problem! And I am standing here, like… maybe they forgot me? The bus for camp left early this year? I don’t know!
What do you do when you are stuck? What is one sure fire way for you to get your characters to talk to you when they are silent? Do you have any go-to tools for the silence?
Well, I can’t believe how quickly this summer is just flying by! Camp NaNo finished up, and I managed to hit my goal, after many ups and downs. I know that I didn’t manage to get my personal goal accomplished, Vampyres Prophecy is not sitting where I had Mo Thuras, but it is much closer so I will consider that a win!
I have been taking some marvelous workshops over the past couple of months and I am very excited about them! My original goal when I went into them was learning some new skills and maybe learning how to get somewhere with my art, my writing. Now that they are drawing to a close I have a whole new plan, a new idea! I am very excited to have learned not only some new skills, but that I can utilize my current skills to help other artists! I am looking into helping people organize not only their day to day life, but their state of being through sets of creative art I am currently making. It is a challenge to make something that has never been made before, but I am enjoying every second of it!
I hope to bring you along for the journey as well! Maybe soon I will even have a few more little surveys to see what you think should be included in this new series of art I am creating.
How is your summer going? Are you finding it flying by? What has consumed you this summer?
Random Acts of Writing 