And yet another sticky that emphasizes my lack of memory skills and need for things such as stickies. When I first began Fie Eoin, I didn’t have much of an idea about coastal communities – especially those on marine coasts as opposed to freshwater coasts. Now that I’ve been in Charleston for a few years, and lived on a tidal marsh, I understand better exactally what needed to go into the construction and placement of Gaerlom, the city on the coast of Timin’s Ocean. I ended up going with a combonation of both ideas, placing the village farther inland and making them concious of the tides in their area. Now Kaye can refresh herself with clean, clear drinking water after trying to swallow a mouthful of saltwater.


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March 16, 2008 at 10:15 am
Sticky #19 « Sticky Note Stories
[...] the mountains would look like, and especially what the coast would look like. As I mentioned in Sticky #5, I wasn’t really sure what the coastal community of Gaerlom would look like when I started [...]
March 29, 2009 at 11:28 am
Sticky #27 « Sticky Note Stories
[...] week that I learned that Aleda was actually a woman from Gaerlom (for more on Gaerlom, see Stickies Five, Six, Seventeen, and Nineteen). She was the mother of the first Faye child (See Stickies Six and [...]