Nanoprep obsession
So I've been AWOL as I'm sure my exactly three readers have noticed. It was not intentional. I had it in my head that since Nanowrimo starts on November 1st, I was going to finish Changeling this last weekend. 75k words, I could SO do it! And I did, but the story isn't over. So my word count went up. And now I'm panicking. See, I could have been done faster except my Nano IDEA came to me. One word, one word was all it took to completely undo me.
Gancanaugh.
I knew what it was because I'm a bit of a mythology freak. Doesn't matter the culture it came from, if it's a myth, I love it. I keep books full of mythology and have a pretty decent one on Celtic and Irish myths because of Changeling. One of my favorites is an epic dictionary of Celtic Mythological Creatures which is where I found Gancanaugh and as soon as I read the description, the story hit me like a freight train. I can't get this story out of my mind. It's nesting and taking over and making it almost impossible to focus on my current story even though I can't start writing it for ten more days. So instead I'm torturing all of my friends by talking about this book, and the main character Liam like he's a real person. I'm sure more than one of them is confused and convinced I'm having an affair. I talk about my characters like they're real people because to me, they are. They're beautiful funny amazing people who just happen to live in my head begging me to give them a permanent home and Liam, Liam is fun to have living in my head. I think he's going to be even more fun living in yours.
So just to torture everyone, I'm going to share the two paragraph snowflake I wrote just to give you an idea of what's coming. Born in the 14th centuary, Ulliam "Liam" McCallum lived up to his name as a warrior for his people. Born during turbulant times he was courageous and ruthless in battle, drawing the attention of the Unseelie Court. Obsessed with him, a Fae named Aerona stole him away with the intent of claiming him. Liam rebuffs her advances for well over a hundred years, disgusted with her and desperate to return home. After hundreds of escape attempts, she punishes him, cursing him to the eternal life of a gancanaugh. He attracts women like flies to honey and his skin emits an toxin that is fatally addictive to the mortal women he will forever crave. Doomed to roam the earth, slowly killing anyone he touches until he can find one who is resistant to his touch and loves him enough to take his curse and carry it for him.
700 years later, Bridget Fisher is finishing up her Freshman year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and getting ready for the Summer tourist season where the weather is perfect and the sun shines 24 hours a day. She has her whole life mapped out in front of her, none of which include the attentions of one overcocky frat boy with an enterouge of vapid sorority clones who doesn't seem to understand that she has no interest in joining his fan club. Liam has been waiting his whole life for someone like her and one way or another he's going to make her fall for him and free him from his curse. If that is, he can keep from wanting her for himself and bringing down the wrath of Aerona on both of their heads because he's finally learned his lesson. If Aerona can't have him, she'll make sure that nobody can. See? Just a simple little nano project to write out for my enjoyment because none of my friends are obsessing over them yet at all and it's not at all weird having a semi chauvenistic perv living in my head.
Gancanaugh.
I knew what it was because I'm a bit of a mythology freak. Doesn't matter the culture it came from, if it's a myth, I love it. I keep books full of mythology and have a pretty decent one on Celtic and Irish myths because of Changeling. One of my favorites is an epic dictionary of Celtic Mythological Creatures which is where I found Gancanaugh and as soon as I read the description, the story hit me like a freight train. I can't get this story out of my mind. It's nesting and taking over and making it almost impossible to focus on my current story even though I can't start writing it for ten more days. So instead I'm torturing all of my friends by talking about this book, and the main character Liam like he's a real person. I'm sure more than one of them is confused and convinced I'm having an affair. I talk about my characters like they're real people because to me, they are. They're beautiful funny amazing people who just happen to live in my head begging me to give them a permanent home and Liam, Liam is fun to have living in my head. I think he's going to be even more fun living in yours.
So just to torture everyone, I'm going to share the two paragraph snowflake I wrote just to give you an idea of what's coming. Born in the 14th centuary, Ulliam "Liam" McCallum lived up to his name as a warrior for his people. Born during turbulant times he was courageous and ruthless in battle, drawing the attention of the Unseelie Court. Obsessed with him, a Fae named Aerona stole him away with the intent of claiming him. Liam rebuffs her advances for well over a hundred years, disgusted with her and desperate to return home. After hundreds of escape attempts, she punishes him, cursing him to the eternal life of a gancanaugh. He attracts women like flies to honey and his skin emits an toxin that is fatally addictive to the mortal women he will forever crave. Doomed to roam the earth, slowly killing anyone he touches until he can find one who is resistant to his touch and loves him enough to take his curse and carry it for him.
700 years later, Bridget Fisher is finishing up her Freshman year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and getting ready for the Summer tourist season where the weather is perfect and the sun shines 24 hours a day. She has her whole life mapped out in front of her, none of which include the attentions of one overcocky frat boy with an enterouge of vapid sorority clones who doesn't seem to understand that she has no interest in joining his fan club. Liam has been waiting his whole life for someone like her and one way or another he's going to make her fall for him and free him from his curse. If that is, he can keep from wanting her for himself and bringing down the wrath of Aerona on both of their heads because he's finally learned his lesson. If Aerona can't have him, she'll make sure that nobody can. See? Just a simple little nano project to write out for my enjoyment because none of my friends are obsessing over them yet at all and it's not at all weird having a semi chauvenistic perv living in my head.
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