Huzzah, writing

[huinare]

For quite a while I've been stricken with the odd dual phenomenon of a lot of ideas but total writer's block.  A couple circumstances lifted that these past few days, namely a new prompt set over at tolkien_weekly  (how could I resist the prospect of using the theme "Blessings" as ironically as possible?) that suddenly made finishing my long-delayed  responses to the "Bogey-stories" set easy, and  the January Action-Adventure Bechdel Test Challenge proposed byaliana1.

My finished drabble series concerning poor Gríma (two to date, each a chapter) can be found here.

For the Bechdel thing, I thought I was mainly going to write Thuringwethil, but Ungoliant (Wirilomë) came and stole the show instead and I've got nearly 4,000 words done.  Wirilomë is such a fun POV character for me as it turns out, because she has all these bizarre and inappropriate ideas such as might lead somebody to become a giant-ass spider.  AND. It's caused me to return to my pet project of trying to reconcile Arda's given history with Earth's geologic history (this gets easier the more I ponder it over time...shoot me, I used to want to be a geologist, okay?)  Thuringwethil is still going to be a major player, and my genderbent!Pallando had a cameo in a pivotal scene because any excuse to write Pallandë.  This is fun times  Thanks for spearheading this challenge, Aliana!

Comments

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

Wirilomë is such a fun POV character for me as it turns out, because she has all these bizarre and inappropriate ideas such as might lead somebody to become a giant-ass spider.

Dying.

And...genderbent!Pallando? DYING.

We wants it, Precious, we wants this story NOW! ;)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Re: Genderbent!Pallando. My fanon’s got the Maia as female (Pallandë), and the later wizard as male. It was one of those lightbulb-over-the-head moments: “There’s nothing saying the wizards looked old when they were Maiar in the Blessed Realm--HOLD THE FUCK ON. There’s nothing saying the wizards looked like males when they were Maiar in the Blessed Realm.” It also means I’ll eventually have to write how it came about that apparently the Istari weren’t allowed to look young OR female.