Memory and Thought

This is always the strangest time, the beginning of a new project. When that page is blank, but overflowing with possibilities.

Memory and Thought is a reworking of an old novel idea. I wish I could remember the actual thought process leading up to the original idea. I’m not sure how much of the original idea will remain once I’m done. I suspect not much. It was a teenage idea, and we all know that they don’t always pan out well into fully-fledged adult ideas.

I’ve been playing around this past week with my two POV characters. Everything I’ve written to date has only included one POV character, so it’s a different ballgame with this novel from the get go. It’s weird, because I find writing from my male character’s POV easier. Maybe it’s because he was the original protagnoist – he’s been knocking about in my head for a decade or so.

I’ve had a lot of problems deciding on a title for this novel. I like having a title before I begin writing – at least a working title. The original title of this novel was Bloodknight (yeah, you can all stop cringing now). I’ve been knocking ideas about, and have finally settled on Memory and Thought. It’s appropriate for both the two main characters as well as having significance for me.

When I was about thirteen, my great aunt visited from Scotland. She brought presents for all of us, and I was allowed to choose between two pairs of silver earrings. They were both Celtic in design, one of them a standard knotwork pattern. The other depicted two stylised ravens. A small slip of paper enclosed named them as Odin’s birds.

From Wikipedia:

“Huginn and Muninn, sometimes Anglicized Hugin and Munin, are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin. Hugin and Munin travel the world bearing news and information to Odin. Hugin is “thought” and Munin is “memory“. They are sent out at dawn to gather information and return in the evening. They perch on the god’s shoulders and whisper the news into his ears. It is from these ravens that the kenning ‘raven-god’ for Odin is derived.

The name Munin has its roots in the Old Norse word for memory.”

I wore those earrings as a good luck charm for years – for every test, assessment and exam. I still have them.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Memory and Thought

This is always the strangest time, the beginning of a new project. When that page is blank, but overflowing with possibilities.

Memory and Thought is a reworking of an old novel idea. I wish I could remember the actual thought process leading up to the original idea. I’m not sure how much of the original idea will remain once I’m done. I suspect not much. It was a teenage idea, and we all know that they don’t always pan out well into fully-fledged adult ideas.

I’ve been playing around this past week with my two POV characters. Everything I’ve written to date has only included one POV character, so it’s a different ballgame with this novel from the get go. It’s weird, because I find writing from my male character’s POV easier. Maybe it’s because he was the original protagnoist – he’s been knocking about in my head for a decade or so.

I’ve had a lot of problems deciding on a title for this novel. I like having a title before I begin writing – at least a working title. The original title of this novel was Bloodknight (yeah, you can all stop cringing now). I’ve been knocking ideas about, and have finally settled on Memory and Thought. It’s appropriate for both the two main characters as well as having significance for me.

When I was about thirteen, my great aunt visited from Scotland. She brought presents for all of us, and I was allowed to choose between two pairs of silver earrings. They were both Celtic in design, one of them a standard knotwork pattern. The other depicted two stylised ravens. A small slip of paper enclosed named them as Odin’s birds.

From Wikipedia:

“Huginn and Muninn, sometimes Anglicized Hugin and Munin, are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin. Hugin and Munin travel the world bearing news and information to Odin. Hugin is “thought” and Munin is “memory“. They are sent out at dawn to gather information and return in the evening. They perch on the god’s shoulders and whisper the news into his ears. It is from these ravens that the kenning ‘raven-god’ for Odin is derived.

The name Munin has its roots in the Old Norse word for memory.”

I wore those earrings as a good luck charm for years – for every test, assessment and exam. I still have them.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.