--:a system or set of terms or symbols esp. in a particular science, discipline, or art.
Definition #3a in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition.
Okay, MY spelling of nomenclature is slightly different, though it is pronounced the same way. :-)
This week I hope to get revved up on my MOGG edits, my gnome story. I revised eleven pathetic pages last week, but I have to do better this week. I must get a firmer foothold into my new world, which means research.
Not just any research, but fantastical research. I need to study gnomes and their behavior. *sigh* I know I can make up stuff, but I want my gnome to follow the 'gnorm' for gnomes. Why? Because it's my world and that's the way I see it.
I HATE reading stories with fantasy characters that are too human without a good reason. I'm currently reading an anthology of novellas involving fairies--human-sized fairies who fall in love with humans. I'm not buying into the concept. I think it is because the novellas are too short to pull me into the new world as it tells me the story. I have a pre-conceived notion about fairies, and these authors haven't done their job to make me think any differently.
I finished reading Nancy Haddock's Last Vampire Standing (LOVED IT!) last week. Her vampire is slightly different, but it was because of her back-story that explains how and why she can walk at sunset and survive without drinking blood while she was imprisoned. The Blade movies did a good job of this. Blade is a day-walker vamp because he's half-blood, but also receives injections of 'something' that prevents his cells from exploding in the sunlight. This allows the viewer to believe in the possibility.
If a writer does his/her job, the reader is sucked into the new world and believes.
This is my goal for MOGG. And I intend to do it well.
Write on!
I recently read Nancy's Last Vampire Standing, too. Love the Starbloods her vamp drinks. lol
ReplyDeleteYou go get em, Margaret! I know you can build a world we can beleive in. And I love research. I have to watch myself sometimes because I get so caught up in research I forget why I was researching to begin with. lol
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who can't buy in to vampire worlds that don't go along with what legend tells us about them. She does like the Blade movies because, like you say, they did a good job of explaining why he was a daywalker.
ReplyDeleteSo do your gnome research, and build your world on what is rather than fighting what's always been.
And if you have any extras turn up, I could use one for my pond garden.
Just saying. lol.
Susan
http://3twistedsisters.wordpress.com
Thanks for commenting, ladies!
ReplyDeleteHey,Susan--first Marilyn tries to steal K'van (my brownie who is fanatical about a clean house), and now YOU want Rory, my gnome?! Pfft! Over my dead body. Oh, crap, you like planning murders. :-(
That's a fine attitude coming from the lady who has been holding SOMEONE's viking captive all these years......... :)
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, you betcha! Just read Karin Tabke's Master of Surrender (First book in the Blood Sword Legacy series)and you'll KNOW why I kept Thorin in my basement. :-)
ReplyDeleteMuch better to have a viking love slave in your basement than some adult kid that won't get a job and move out. :)
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