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rosenritterHello dreamwidth, my old friend. I've come to post in you again. Because Tumblr went a-deleting, and my patience became fleeting-
Anyway. So. Feels weird to be typing in a format like this years and years after my misspent youth on LJ. But it's 2019 and everything old is new again because the world is on fire! I'm going to be experimenting with posting my chapter notes here from now on. If it's a colossal failure, then I'll re-examine other options. I do have a pillowfort now (user name "rosenritter"), but there's absolutely nothing there yet I haven't poked around with it at all so far.
I will also be trying to post mini-updates/thoughts on Twitter. You can find me there @rosenritter42.
There's probably going to be a lot of awkward cross-pollination going on while I figure out the best way to move forward with all this crud. Thank you for your patience!
On to the actual notes, ha.
This is the first chapter (not counting the prologue) with multiple POVs. In my previous writing, I've had a pretty bad habit of floating around through characters heads, sometimes on a line-by-line basis. But not in a way that felt like true 3rd person omniscient writing. I'm trying to keep myself on a stricter leash with this story, but this particular chapter really called for all three perspectives (Abigail/Melinoë, Hannibal/Aušrinė, and Will/Sabine) and I feel like it's structured enough to work.
Abigail is a fascinating character, but I always feel shaky when writing her. She's one of the tougher characters to get right, in my opinion. She won't have as many POV chapters as Will and Hannibal, but I will get to practice with her POV more later.
On Specific Daemons:
Melinoë: Because Abigail is not yet 18, Melinoë has not yet settled. Her name comes from the ancient Greek nymph/goddess of the same name. In some traditions, Melinoë is the daughter of Hades and Persephone, and in others Zeus and Persephone. And in still others, both at once, because the classics are a mess of conflicting belief systems over hundreds and hundreds of years. Melinoë is usually considered associated with nightmares and madness, which I feel is a big mood for Abigail. Pronunciation: meh-lin-OH-ee
Cernunnos: Garrett Jacob Hobbs' daemon is an elk stag. His name comes from Cernunnos, a popular name attributed to the 'horned god' found in certain pagan belief systems. I waffled back and forth on whether the name was a little too on-the-nose, but I was born on-the-nose and I will die on-the-nose goddamnit. Pronunciation: kerr-NEW-nohs
Caecilius: Louise Hobbs' daemon is a North American beaver. We don't really know anything about Abigail's mother through the series, which meant I could pretty much do with her whatever I'd like character-wise. I decided I wanted her to be aware of what must have been some really strange/suspicious behavior from her husband but unfortunately not quite on the right path to figure it out. I liked the idea of her realizing something is amiss while going over the family finances, and I was going to include a line about her working as an accountant but cut it for flow. The name Caecilius (and my accountant idea) comes from Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, a banker from Pompeii. Aptly, the name also derives from a root word meaning "blind", which references that she is unaware of her husband's murders and her daughter being an unwilling accomplice. Pronunciation: seh-SILL-ee-uhs
The next chapter is going to have so many goddamn notes that I'm already physically sweating.
Anyway. So. Feels weird to be typing in a format like this years and years after my misspent youth on LJ. But it's 2019 and everything old is new again because the world is on fire! I'm going to be experimenting with posting my chapter notes here from now on. If it's a colossal failure, then I'll re-examine other options. I do have a pillowfort now (user name "rosenritter"), but there's absolutely nothing there yet I haven't poked around with it at all so far.
I will also be trying to post mini-updates/thoughts on Twitter. You can find me there @rosenritter42.
There's probably going to be a lot of awkward cross-pollination going on while I figure out the best way to move forward with all this crud. Thank you for your patience!
On to the actual notes, ha.
This is the first chapter (not counting the prologue) with multiple POVs. In my previous writing, I've had a pretty bad habit of floating around through characters heads, sometimes on a line-by-line basis. But not in a way that felt like true 3rd person omniscient writing. I'm trying to keep myself on a stricter leash with this story, but this particular chapter really called for all three perspectives (Abigail/Melinoë, Hannibal/Aušrinė, and Will/Sabine) and I feel like it's structured enough to work.
Abigail is a fascinating character, but I always feel shaky when writing her. She's one of the tougher characters to get right, in my opinion. She won't have as many POV chapters as Will and Hannibal, but I will get to practice with her POV more later.
On Specific Daemons:
Melinoë: Because Abigail is not yet 18, Melinoë has not yet settled. Her name comes from the ancient Greek nymph/goddess of the same name. In some traditions, Melinoë is the daughter of Hades and Persephone, and in others Zeus and Persephone. And in still others, both at once, because the classics are a mess of conflicting belief systems over hundreds and hundreds of years. Melinoë is usually considered associated with nightmares and madness, which I feel is a big mood for Abigail. Pronunciation: meh-lin-OH-ee
Cernunnos: Garrett Jacob Hobbs' daemon is an elk stag. His name comes from Cernunnos, a popular name attributed to the 'horned god' found in certain pagan belief systems. I waffled back and forth on whether the name was a little too on-the-nose, but I was born on-the-nose and I will die on-the-nose goddamnit. Pronunciation: kerr-NEW-nohs
Caecilius: Louise Hobbs' daemon is a North American beaver. We don't really know anything about Abigail's mother through the series, which meant I could pretty much do with her whatever I'd like character-wise. I decided I wanted her to be aware of what must have been some really strange/suspicious behavior from her husband but unfortunately not quite on the right path to figure it out. I liked the idea of her realizing something is amiss while going over the family finances, and I was going to include a line about her working as an accountant but cut it for flow. The name Caecilius (and my accountant idea) comes from Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, a banker from Pompeii. Aptly, the name also derives from a root word meaning "blind", which references that she is unaware of her husband's murders and her daughter being an unwilling accomplice. Pronunciation: seh-SILL-ee-uhs
The next chapter is going to have so many goddamn notes that I'm already physically sweating.
