Here
I am already on ‘D’ and I’m still having difficulty understanding or managing
this A-Z process any better than when I started. I write all the time but
that’s for my novel. I’m not comfortable in this person to person conversation
which I’m now having through A-Z. I’ll get better in time I guess or, more
accurately, I hope I will.
When
I started writing my fantasy, I was amazed that I didn't seem to have to work
very hard at all to manufacture personae for my characters; they developed
their individual personalities all on their own. At one point my daughter asked
me what was going to happen next in the story and I told her that it depended
on what the characters wanted to happen. “Don’t be ridiculous, Mom” she said.
“They’re your characters whom you make up in your head. You decide who, when,
where and what.” I tried to explain that I am only the scribe in this story
process and that the characters really do develop the story as they progress
through it. She told me I was ‘cooked’. I wear that title as a badge of honour.
DAIGHACAER: When I was thinking about a name for the book series, the
name ‘Daighacaer’ (Day-gar-care) kept coming to mind and the meaning which I
have chosen for it followed naturally – Flaming Horse Master – weird, I know. I
knew it was a difficult name but its persistent nagging won me over and I've come to love it during the many months I've been writing. The name Daighacaer
is so very different yet, at the same time, it has a familiarity about it –
almost Celtic but not quite…
DARKE:
The Lighte versus The Darke;
Good versus Evil; Cops versus Robbers – different and yet all the same theme –
winners versus losers. Escape From Mount Vilipend – in fact the whole
Daighacaer series – is no different. Who will triumph; how; when and what will
they experience along the way? That is where the real story lies…
DARZIM:
Evil is as evil does – the darzim
(singular and plural) are immortal and amoral creatures of the Underdarke. In certain
circumstances, darzim are granted privileges by The Darke in exchange for their
immortality. Caliginor (see A-Z ‘C’) is one such creature.
Darzim are wholly
evil and have no redeeming characteristics.
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