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Happy Halloween! I know last week I said I would see you in December, but I had one last sticky to sneak in before November came around. I’ve done all my cleaning for the month (I washed the floors AND the bathrooms!), and I’ve finally gotten a decent amount of sleep to start the month off right. Now all that’s left to do is hand out candy and stay up til midnight watching Where the Wild Things Are so I can get the first few words in before bed.
And speaking of NaNo, I’ve heard a lot of people this year saying that they are going to try, even if they don’t think they will win. I think that’s great. It’s not really the winning that is the great thing about NaNo – it’s the writing. It’s getting out something that needs to come out. And even if you can only get out ten thousand words in November, that’s still ten thousand words. It gives you something to work off of. And it’s ten thousand more words than most people in the world have written. So even if you try, and “fail”, it’s still better than not trying at all because you are scared of failing.
Which brings us to this week’s sticky. The High Priestess of Fie Eoin happens to be a very smart person. She’s also a very tormented person, because she had the chance to save Fennec’s life and didn’t, because she was afraid she would kill him. So he died anyway, and she’s been living with that guilt for eight years, and is now trying to save Kaye from the same fate. I thought her words were appropriate for all those people who are afraid to do NaNo because they might fail. If you don’t do something you will certainly fail at it, but if you try you just might discover you can write 50,000 words in 30 days. Or save someone’s life.
Happy Feast of Eoin! Today is the feast dedicated to Fie Eoin’s war god, Eoin, and the day that new warriors are inducted. There is a big celebration, a ceremony for the inductees, and a lot of drinking, eating, and dancing. This day marks the end of the long, hot training season and the beginning of the harvest season when they prepare for winter. This day also happens to coincide with my birthday 
Or maybe that’s not so random at all.
Today’s sticky is from the Feast of Eoin, describing a little bit of the general scene. There is a lot going on during the Feast and I wanted to give a quick general overview of it. Plus, I was listening to some Loreena McKennitt yesterday and that always makes me think of Fie Eoin. So I jotted this down in the middle of sweeping the floor and plan on getting it into the story sometime before November. Because you know what happens in November, don’t you?
This week you are getting almost two stickies for the price of one! How lucky do you feel?
I’ve been splitting my time lately between Fie Eoin and Phooka Tales. With another NaNoWriMo almost upon us I’ve finally let Phooka Tales sit long enough to go back and start editing (and sometimes I just have days where I want a little Brett in my life), but Fie Eoin is my first baby and Kindra and Gar are very demanding. They don’t let FE sit dormant for long. I’ve also been storylining the Apollo and Daphne story, although I still need a name for that one.
This week you are getting almost two stickies for the price of one! How lucky do you feel?
This sticky was written well before the idea for Apollo and Daphne came to be. In fact, this story was written before NaNo last year, because I never did use that bottom half in Phooka Tales. I just wrote down everything that happened in the lab I worked in as inspiration for the story. By the time it came to write PT, I didn’t use most of what I had written down. A large chunk of in-lab storytelling was left by the wayside because it wasn’t as interesting as what happens when the creatures begin appearing. The in-lab stuff was just my cathartic way of dealing with work stress without quitting (or going crazy and seeing creatures myself!). I highly recommend writing stories where you fire all of your co-workers to relieve stress.
The top half of the sticky was me trying to decide how to introduce Gar’s friends into Fie Eoin. At first I had Gar introducing them to her as she joined them for breakfast on her first morning as a Warrior. But then I realized that their village isn’t that large, and Kindra would already know all of his friends from childhood. So I needed a new way to introduce them. I used the same part of the story to introduce the different groups in Fie Eoin – the senior warriors, the new warriors, the women and what they do while all the warriors are out being warriors all day. I think you can tell that the warriors are my favorite part.
So perhaps you have noticed my distinct lack of posting for the past two weeks, and my sudden reappearance with not only a star sticky, but a star sticky about weddings. You know what star stickies mean around here – it means something awesome has happened. And it just so happens that my awesome little sister got married last weekend! Thus, I am honoring it with a star sticky about my two favorite characters and their wedding.
I’d love to ramble on and on about my little sis’ wedding, but I doubt you are interested. So instead I’ll tell you that during Kindra’s night in “sweat” (a sauna-tent used to purify yourself before rituals, such as weddings, warrior ceremonies, and other special occasions) she was sent a vision of her ancestor, Ian Odion – the man who brought the Tribes of Aleda from the Faye Lands. I won’t tell you what the vision is yet, except that it has to do with the founding of Fie Eoin (the tribe of Ian).
First, let me apologize for the size of today’s sticky. I scanned it with a bunch of other stickies and if I shrink it down any further it gets blurry and hard to read. That has never happened before – I think it’s the light blue. I might just have to stick with purple.
Today’s sticky is from Pike’s Revenge. Yeah, I know you thought it was Fie Eoin because Kindra is in it, but Pike’s Revenge is the sequel to Fie Eoin, and although she is no longer the main character she doesn’t exactly hide herself away. I almost used this sticky as my Father’s Day sticky, but it just didn’t give me the same warm, fuzzy feeling that Lane did. Not that Kindra can’t give you a warm, fuzzy feeling. I’m finding that in the re-write her relationship with Gar is a lot more warm and fuzzy than I initially thought. Her relationship with Pike is even less warm and fuzzy than I thought, and I have to admit I have really enjoyed both parts of the book. And poor Barracuda is caught in the middle of that hostility, and is the least hostile person you could meet (you may recall Sticky #7 in which Kindra’s daughter harasses him). But don’t let him fool you like he fooled Kindra. He’s not weak.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. It has been hitting 100*F here already so I’ve been spending most of my time at the beach. The problem with stickies at the beach is that the sand sticks to them, so it’s a good thing I uploaded this before I went to the beach yesterday. Today’s sticky is from Fie Eoin, as you may be able to tell if you’ve read a number of my stickies. I decided last month that I needed a way to get the other six tribes into the book, so instead of letting Kindra mope about Fie Eoin in Chapter 5 I’ve sent her on a mission to Fie Ronna, the tribe that makes all of the practical goods the Seven Tribes use. Since this is a completely new thing for FE, I had to figure out where to place the Fie Ronna scenes in the midst of already written scenes in Chapter 5. This is a list of the scenes and where Fie Ronna’s scenes will (probably) go.
To celebrate the 30th sticky on the SNS blog, I have chosen a star-shaped sticky just for today. I keep these little star stickies in my purse – they were a gift from a friend – and whenever I get an idea I jot it down on a star. I tend to also jot a lot of phone numbers, small grocery lists, and directions on these guys. And of course the points always fold over.
Today’s sticky is from Fie Eoin, and was a little jot of where I stopped writing the story before NaNoWriMo started last year. I don’t like editing as much as writing, so while I’m currently in the editing stages of Fie Eoin, I tend more towards re-writing entire chapters from scratch. It probably takes a lot longer, but I’ve learned so much about writing in the past seven years since I started Fie Eoin that sometimes it is easier to re-write the whole thing.
Also, there are no kelpies in Fie Eoin. That was a typo because it was NaNo time and there are kelpies in Phooka Tales.
Today I was planning on putting up a sticky that I wrote in Key West last week - which is why I didn’t get a sticky up last weekend - but as it turns out Key West is much too relaxing to write anything, even stickies. Instead I bring you a sticky I wrote at work the week before I left on my vacation.
As you know from one of last week’s stickies, Kindra needs something more to do than just walk around Fie Eoin after her sister leaves. I sent her to Fie Ronna for pants, since Kaye stole a pair of hers, and they only have about two pairs of each clothing item to begin with. After all, how many pairs of clothes do you need in a tribal society? Especially when you are a warrior. I think a pair to get bloody and a pair to wear while you clean the bloodied ones is enough. But if you have just been in a battle, and your sister steals your clean pair, then you need another pair of pants. But who do you get pants from if you spend all of your time fighting and training and hunting? Well, in Fie Eoin’s case, you get them from Fie Ronna. And if you are an Odion, you get them from the chief of Fie Ronna, or in this case his wife. It took me a while to decide on this – I kept wanting the person to be Kindra’s aunt, but as it turns out Kindra’s aunt doesn’t live in Fie Ronna. I’m still not even sure she has an aunt. That will probably be argued on another sticky.
I also like the name Abigail too much, and have named a key (very similar) character in two stories Abigail. In Phooka Tales they mostly call her Abby, but I still would rather change it in Fie Eoin to something else. Anyone have a suggestion for a name?
Today’s stickies are all from Fie Eoin, and they are on very small stickies this week. I changed jobs recently (well, I changed areas of the lab I work in – I’m still with the same company) and all I could find were these tiny stickies for the first couple weeks of the new job. I have since found a large pad of dark purple stickies that do not have the watermark on the back and I’ve switched back to those. There is only so much you can write on a tiny sticky.
Speaking of stickies, I have found a website called www.qualitylogoproducts.com that carries personalized sticky notes! They come in different shapes! I was thinking of getting some with SNS on them, but I would have to get regular sticky note shaped ones, since the website is about sticky notes. Or maybe book shaped stickies, since it is also about the books I write. I was thinking I could also get the clover shaped stickies with Fie Eoin on them, since if you head over to Sticky Note Stories and click on Fie Eoin’s page you can read the little short story “The Clover”.
If only they made spear-shaped sticky notes…
I am putting today’s sticky “note” at the bottom of the post, instead of the top, because I don’t want you to get lost in the giant purple mass that you see below without some explanation. Read them from left to right by rows (there are black lines between each row), and I apologize for the watermark on the last one. I didn’t realize that was on the back of that pack of stickies until after I wrote on the front and flipped it over. 3M lawyers, please see the disclaimer below.
I have been writing Fie Eoin for seven years this summer, and pretty much from the beginning of those seven years I have had some idea of Aleda, the mother goddess of the Seven Tribes (also known as the Seven Tribes of Aleda, the language spoken being Aledan, ect.). And it wasn’t until earlier this 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 Twelve for more on the Faye) and the one who took all of the Faye children from Gaerlom to live in the mountains without fear of being killed or mutilated by the tribe that feared them.
The stickies below are Aleda’s death, and how she became known as a goddess, “the mother of us all”.
Well, I do hope this makes up for not posting in a couple of weeks. And I do apologize for that – my new puppy gave me a neck injury that took forever to heal. I also apologize in advance for not posting next weekend, but my parents will be in town and I only see them a few times a year.
Also, a disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with 3M and their products, Post-It Notes. Nor am I affiliated with any other sticky note manufacturer or distributor. I just use sticky notes more than the average person. Please don’t sue me.
