Strictly speaking, it's spelled "Jule" (pronounced "Yule").I'm back to working on "Yule," my Viking Christmas story.It's about this time of year, editors choose their stories for December editions.
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Strictly speaking, it's spelled "Jule" (pronounced "Yule").I'm back to working on "Yule," my Viking Christmas story.It's about this time of year, editors choose their stories for December editions.
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Not according to Wikipedia and a whole slew of online dictionaries.Strictly speaking, it's spelled "Jule" (pronounced "Yule").
Tell that to the Christmas cards my grandparents received from their relatives in Sweden. I'm not talking about English spelling.Not according to Wikipedia and a whole slew of online dictionaries.In comparison, I could find no spelling of "Yule" with a "J."
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I'm not talking about English spelling.
"Merry Christmas" in Norwegian is "God Jul."My story has a Norwegian forest cat but no Swedes, so I'll stick with my English spelling.![]()
Since I have such a mishmash of religions both monotheistic and polytheistic (I decided that the people of Griffinvale worship two gods rather than one and I never name any of them, at least so far), it doesn't really matter.
I'm back to working on "Eek," my spacefaring swashbuckler. I'm up to 3,500 words, not bad for over 10 years of effort.
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This is really a charming story.I found a cute Jack Sparrow story, but it lacks the necessary fantasy or science fiction component.![]()
mule trail ... neigh on impossible
I've always had a sneaking suspicion that hot air balloons were invented at an earlier time and then forgotten. Different technology would have been used, but it would mean you don't need space aliens to account for the Nazca lines.Remember:
This is really a charming story.It involves pirates robbing the impregnable Bank of Panama. I now remember I abandoned this story because Panama City is on the Pacific coast, my pirates must transport their loot to their ships in Caribbean Sea, and only one, narrow mule trail connects the two. A getaway is neigh on impossible.
I toyed with the idea of hot air balloons, which in RL weren't invented until 1895, altho Burt Lancaster used one in the Crimson Pirate. However, balloons lack the necessary lifting power. I have yet to invoke any fantasy-based solution...but I remain pessimistic.
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I managed to write 500 words in one sitting earlier today. I'm not sure how I pulled it off. It was part of a oneshot that went into my head and would not go out so I started writing it in hopes that it would stop bothering me.
Did you know there's a novel by Ursula K. LeGuin called The Word for World is Forest?I'm back to working on my Cursed Airship story.I've combined the arrest and escape of my priestess in Chap. 1 & 2 into a single chapter.
This makes my former Chap 3 (now Chap 2) only half as long as my new Chap. 1. I try to keep the length of my chaps aprx equal.
I'm easing my motif of AIRships to a focus on the raging WATER, renaming the story "The Word for World is Water."
I should have never used the word "levee;" it is a sea wall--or now an ocean wall.