well, *obviously*

Guys, I am SO EXCITED. You know why? I figured out what was wrong with "Old Timber to New Fires", the Caspian in the Golden Age story. Obviously Peter and Edmund aren't going to be showing Caspian around, they have a war to win, they can't babysit some princeling -- even if they both know he's a king in his own right -- from the future. This means I get to pass Caspian off into the hands of some, uh, original characters, and he gets to see the glory of Old Narnia in the mdist of the Golden Age (also known as the Great Summer, also known as the Flowering, etc. etc.) from the ground up. Also, when I write Peter and Edmund, I get distracted by the banter, which shouldn't really be there, not when the story's from Caspian's POV. Also, oh my God, the Narnian army, which is really, like, half the Narnian army, still has more people than all the native Narnians in Caspian's Narnia put together.

This would probably work better if I wasn't coming up on a two or three day streak when I won't have my computer, followed by a week when I may not have time to write. Gee, thanks, college.

I just need to clip the dead story bits out of the document and put them in a KeyNote folder instead. I love KeyNote, I should add. Also, I have come up with the elaborate political system in Golden Age Telmar, and what happened to drive some of the Telmarines into Narnia, and this makes me happy. I am such a geek. (Although I should add that I do not bite the heads of chickens. Ew, guys, I hate birds, why would I do that?)

*beams* No, I haven't started packing yet, although I did ship off two boxes of extra sheets and things I don't need till later. Why do you ask? (They are little boxes, by the way, and my mom was trying to convince me to ship three boxes. Hello, my dorm is in what used to be a completely different college campus, and pretty damn far away from the quad. Also, I do not need that much stuff. The four books I was bringing, by the way? Are not coming. They were the first four Diana Gabaldon books, which I pretty much have memorized.)

let's talk history and myth

One of the major themes of the Warsverse is the distance between history, myth, legend, and fact. The differences between Narnian and Telmarine legend, the distance between Narnian and Telmarine history, and what actually happened. I haven't talked about it much, but it's one of many things that made me seize on Prince Caspian like a drowning man on a rope.

I just finished reading A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz, and there's a quote near the end that stuck near me.

( 'Of course, the gentleman from Virginia is quite correct. But it doesn't matter. )

Something to think about in terms of Narnia. *thoughtful*

*whimpers*

"Be Like Water", the Petaverse story, is now a Word document. All 42 words of it. (Answer to life, the universe, and everything!)

Oh God.