Shadows Edge

I’m getting back to work on the character challenge. Don’t know if Gemini intended it or not, but she didn’t exactly set me an easy task - not if I’m going to justice to the challenge anyway. At least there’s not much likelihood of this character needing her own story or finding her way into any of my existing ones!

Seeing as we’re trying to get more visits to YourCre8tivity.com, I decided to participate in a group project that Darren Rowse has going over at ProBlogger - if you want to see the goals for YourCre8tivity set in very bad verse by yours truly, you can do it here.

I’ve done some work on Dawn and will post an updated progress meter tomorrow. A character who was supposed to have a bit part made it known the other night that he intends to wreak a bit of havoc rather than quietly fading away. Not sure exactly how I’ll work it in, but I’ll figure something out.

As if that wasn’t enough (lol) I have two short story ideas that I want to work on - both of them are rather old, but I lost all my notes on one of them - so I’m trying to recreate as much of it as I can.

Oh yeah… I’ve also been looking into various writing, art and creativity sites….

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Before I actually start writing anything about my first character, I want to let you know about a great resource for coming up with character names. Names are one of the hardest things for me to come up with for characters - personalities and histories are much easier. One source that I use alot for names is 20,000 Names The only disadvantage to the site is that it isn’t a searchable database. The names are provided in list form, but the number of categories and nationalities they have is outstanding. It had been awhile since my last visit and they’ve added a whole set of categories - every thing from Dragon names to “night” names and magical names to “Guardian” names, including a long list of androgynous/unisex names. There are other sites I use to generate names on occasion, but this is the one I keep going back to.

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Why do I prefer to inhabit the shadows? Because the shadows are where everything is possible. Bright light leaves nothing to the imagination, revealing every detail there is to see. In utter darkness, there is nothing to see - no hints or possibilities.

Very little in the world is black and white - most everything is a shade of gray. The widest range of experiences, concepts and potentials is found in that meeting place in between. . . In the shadows.

Why should I limit myself to just the light, where there is no room for supposition and what if?? Should I limit myself to the narrowness of the dark, where nothing can be seen?? Would you?

I choose the multitude of possibilities that can be found in the shadows - the scary and the calming, the ugly and the beautiful, the chaotic and the logical. I choose to not to limit myself, except to what my imagination can conjure. And I continue to search out ways to stretch my imagination and my limits.

So, that’s me and my blog, in a nutshell. Any questions?

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