Pen of the Gryphon

Feeling a bit better...

January 6, 2007 ~ Saturday

Hmm... Well...

I am quite tickled today. It seems as though Fictionpress alerts are working again, as I logged on to my e-mail yesterday and had at least 30 e-mails all from FP in replies to reviews, reviews and other alert-related stuff...

Yippee!

Anyhoo, I am finished with that chapter at last! It is gone and done with at least until I come back to it in my rewrite after I am finished with my first draft. Now I am starting on the next chapter, chapter 9, and I am quite happy in that I discovered a story element I had never thought of...

I have a character named Arvin  in this chapter who was once the leader of a great nation, but was defeated and humiliated and who exiled himself. He was followed, however, by great numbers of his followers and they have created a city unto themselves hidden in the mountains. They still look up to him and honor him as a leader, but now he wants nothing more to do with leadership and works as a blacksmith. The story element I had was for another character, Bane, to work for him as his apprentice, pumping the bellows of the forge. I had already decided that Bane would look up to Arvin as the father-figure he had never had, but I always had the problem of them never having a close enough relationship for this feeling to come about... But now I have it! *happy dance*

Yeah, anyway... I'm good for now...

Sees yas allls laters...

~GryphonFledglingOfSilverWings
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