It’s National Storytelling Week this week; a fitting occasion to re-enter the blogosphere and tell of the host of oral-tale-telling events I shall be running this semester. However, as close as events come, planning is still in its infancy. In other creative news, The Writers’ Descent #3 is set to run this Easter. The line-up of fools undertaking the challenge is as yet uncertain, but it promises to be every bit as productive/fun as its predecessors.
Despite a week free of academic constraints, I have done little more than dabble at writing, and certainly have completed no major chunks of prose, for I have been rather distracted. The birth of Sævör, my first LARP character, and along with it, costume window-shopping and the discovery of obscure Norse legend has stolen much of my attention, and even that has been frequently interrupted by the acquisition of the extended Lord of the Rings dvds, and second hand copies of the first two Edge Chronicles novels. In short, I’ve been lost in worlds of deep myth, so much so that I’ve been unable to create my own.
That shall change however, in the following week (also free of academia). At least I hope it shall, for, wonderful as myth-encapsulation is, I'm starting to feel like I'm in an unshakeable trance, and it's slightly disconcerting. I plan to shape the unseen horrors of Meenu into something presentable. I shall also be working on learning materials to perform, and if I can work out how to do it, might even post up some audio clips.
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I shall endeavour, over the course of the week, to post the obligatory new year posts, albeit rather belatedly.
