Writing: Folami Vignette #1

Crappy writing for the win.

Uh, I had a bad day today (it's kiddo-related and I'll write about it later). I'm staying up late due to being upset and (now) a headache. I get to sleep in Saturday and then I'll feel better. (And yes, the kiddo is fine, there's just some new issues cropping up that are related to his speech delay and changes happening both at home and at school.)

Anyway, I'm working on little vignettes for my WoW character Folami to help give her some background. What follows is the first of those vignettes, rough draft, and the first bit of writing I've really done since...January? I'm going to write more tomorrow. I'm also thinking of following through on a short story idea I had for Pasha that takes place four or five years before she meets Jodan, and that might jar me into getting back into actually writing that novel.

So, the first vignette is only about 512 words, and, as I said, rough draft. I just wanted to put it up here because...I don't know. I'm rambling now. Yay for Excedrin.

( It was the smell Folami would remember most the day her father dragged her deep into the Eversong Woods to show her the Wretched; the smell of earth and rotting leaves that greeted her when her father shoved her off the saddle of his Hawkstrider. )

Not Sure If Want...Pretty Sure Don't Want

The new Wonder Woman (television series):



The good: To me, she actually looks like someone who could give the bad guys a really bad day, someone who can take care of herself without needing to be rescued. (Do you hear me, David E. Kelley?)

The bad: The costume sucks. I mean, seriously? It looks like bad Halloween get-up I can buy at Spencer's. And that top, oh that top. You know, it's entirely possible to show off cleavage and enhance one's bustline without being in danger of flashing the world if you so much as breathe wrong. I should know. *cough*

Also, part of Wonder Woman's schtick was the patriotic theme of her costume. It's not a deal breaker for me, it's just that I do have some nostalgia from watching the old Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series as a really young kid. Girls have so few women superheroes to look up to as it is, and after what's been happening with the Wonder Woman comic reboot, I'm feeling more than a little leery of a television series (that's possibly doomed to failure already).

On the other hand, Carey Elwes is involved so I might have to watch it just to see how he manages to perform in what is surely to be a train wreck.

Oh, Joss, you are by no means perfect, but I still wish you could have directed a Wonder Woman movie. Somehow I feel that it would be far better than what's coming.