playing god for fun and (hopefully) profit

[lagilman]

Few things are more pitiful than a Boomer denied ginger-and-teryaki tilapia fillets. He even tried to make an end-run through the green salad. Silly kitty. Pandora, disdaining people food, has spent the time trying to claim ownership of the laptop, as usual. I'm pretty sure she thinks of it as a strange but useful bed-warmer rather than as a means to take over the e-world, but I'm not letting her get any ideas. Mine, fur-face. Go back to sleeping on the pillow.

Today was spent creating religious myths for TPEMB. It may never appear in the story proper, but the structural origin myth informs the actions of several characters, so it had to be mapped out -- and then obscured and attacked over the generations.

I'm quite pleased with it, actually. L. Ron had the right of it -- invented religions are far more enjoyable than inherited ones. ;-)

Meanwhile, a few beta-readers have been heard from. First four chapters don't suck, apparently.

Comments

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Of course they don't!!

[lagilman]

the author is always the last to know...

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Few things are more pitiful than a Boomer denied ginger-and-teryaki tilapia fillets

Except for a Max and Aries begging pitifully for pieces of herbed chicken breast being chopped up for chicken salad.}:P

L. Ron had the right of it -- invented religions are far more enjoyable than inherited ones.

Damn skippy they are. }:P

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

Meant to tell you that you made me realize I needed to work on religion in my novel. Thank you. I get to take Christianity and twist it due to a little old apocalypse. Should be interesting.

[lagilman]

The tough thing to remember is often how very much religion shapes us (characters and RLP) even when we are not active participants. It is our mythology, and all mythology has psychological heft, in the ritual and the language if nothing else.

Ah, ritual and language. Two of my favorite things to mess with...

[vincam.livejournal.com]

Back when Spot was aging and heat-seeking, I kept her off the electronics by rigging a place to sleep with a heating pad set on low. She was a happy kitty the last few years.