So below are some pics of the setting of my story. This is near my home in Western Mass. There is a giant tunnel that the stream flows through. and beautiful woods on both sides. Up from one side of it is my parents house. This will be the little girls home. Her father works for the oil/heating company that supplies all the homes in the little town with heat during the winter. Through the tunnel, on the other side is a world that's invisible to humans. It's a world where supernatural creatures live and the seasons that dictate how nature behaves have physical bodies and personalities (Remember Rhyzome is spring/summer and the yeti/old man character is winter). This is all unknown to human beings. Rhyzome has a script or engraving, something ancient that tells a story, a series of tasks that must be done. He has been waiting for thousands of years for the next step in this process to happen. That step is the little girl. She is the portal, the key, to this tunnel that superates man from myth. Once she goes through, these creatures could go into the human world physically, at will, and Rhyzome must do so to complete the next task.
My time span is late summer through mid winter. From the time Rhyzome is controlling nature until the time when he dies each year, goes back in the ground, and must be reborn again the next year. This time, according to this "ancient writing" there will not be a next year for nature and this world of creatures. Rhyzome must complete the tasks before late january and will fight the cold and dead of winter in order to do it. This will hopefully makes the protagonists obstacles build up for a good resolution. the last part of this "writing" illustrates that the humans will lose the heat in there homes and tear down nearly all the forest for fire wood.
The little girl being one of the 2 main characters and the key in Rhyzomes quest can see the creatures when she gets to the other side. Not sure if the two of them will come into contact with eachother or not yet. Still finding the less important goal/resolution for the girls story. Rhyzomes core story is figured out. So...its a lot right now, but I'm continuously working it down and down to get a concise short story out of this which again will be illustrated black and white in my final book with a large portion in back of the book containing all the chaacter studies/sketches/preliminary work. Thanks.
So below are some pics of the setting of my story. This is near my home in Western Mass. There is a giant tunnel that the stream flows through. and beautiful woods on both sides. Up from one side of it is my parents house. This will be the little girls home. Her father works for the oil/heating company that supplies all the homes in the little town with heat during the winter. Through the tunnel, on the other side is a world that's invisible to humans. It's a world where supernatural creatures live and the seasons that dictate how nature behaves have physical bodies and personalities (Remember Rhyzome is spring/summer and the yeti/old man character is winter). This is all unknown to human beings. Rhyzome has a script or engraving, something ancient that tells a story, a series of tasks that must be done. He has been waiting for thousands of years for the next step in this process to happen. That step is the little girl. She is the portal, the key, to this tunnel that superates man from myth. Once she goes through, these creatures could go into the human world physically, at will, and Rhyzome must do so to complete the next task.
My time span is late summer through mid winter. From the time Rhyzome is controlling nature until the time when he dies each year, goes back in the ground, and must be reborn again the next year. This time, according to this "ancient writing" there will not be a next year for nature and this world of creatures. Rhyzome must complete the tasks before late january and will fight the cold and dead of winter in order to do it. This will hopefully makes the protagonists obstacles build up for a good resolution. the last part of this "writing" illustrates that the humans will lose the heat in there homes and tear down nearly all the forest for fire wood.
The little girl being one of the 2 main characters and the key in Rhyzomes quest can see the creatures when she gets to the other side. Not sure if the two of them will come into contact with eachother or not yet. Still finding the less important goal/resolution for the girls story. Rhyzomes core story is figured out. So...its a lot right now, but I'm continuously working it down and down to get a concise short story out of this which again will be illustrated black and white in my final book with a large portion in back of the book containing all the chaacter studies/sketches/preliminary work. Thanks.
sounds cool, and that youre excited about it --
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i love your owl/salamander.