From My Fantasy Writing Desk
One of the characters in my Tesha series, Daniti, is blind. When she is the point of view character, I have to write scenes without any visual cues. I enjoy the challenge of immersing a reader without the easiest, go-to sense that every writer uses for that process. But somehow in my current manuscript, I have managed to plunge my plot into a situation where Daniti loses access to even more of the repertoire of human senses. What was I thinking? After an initial sinking feeling that I was an idiot, it’s actually working pretty well. It is hard to grab a snippet without including spoilers, but here’s a teaser.
She scrambled to hold onto something, but her mind rebelled from what she sensed. Or didn’t sense. Her navigation depended on both the echoes off what lay around her and on the touch under her fingers. When she reached out now, no feeling responded. It was almost as if she had no hands at all.
Her scream passed through a borderless space, giving her nothing.
Archaeology I Enjoyed
Excavation of an Egyptian God
Horus rises. During excavations carried out at the Funerary Temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor’s west bank, an Egyptian-German archaeological mission unearthed a large part of a stone colossus of a standing falcon-headed god Horus. Horus was a key god in ancient Egypt, associated with the kingship of Pharaoh and the sky, among other powers. Isis gave birth to Horus after she gathered up the dismembered parts of her husband Osiris. Horus became the rival of his uncle Seth who had chopped up Osiris. This is a beautiful statue, even with missing arms and legs. Click here for Archaeology News Network “Colossus statue of Horus unearthed in Luxor”
Visit Athens without Leaving Home
Here’s a gorgeous website with a virtual tour of the Acropolis. You can choose which structures and details to look closely at and pull up commentary on each to explain what you’re looking at. Take a trip to Athens in an instant. Click here for the Acropolis Virtual Tour website.