Weekend Writing Warriors: July 14, 2013

Weekend Writing Warriors

It's #8sunday again! To join the gang, check out the rules HERE, it's super easy and tonnes of fun.

Last week I said that I'd start posting sentences from The Legend of the White Raven today. I hope you'll forgive me for changing my mind. I will totally post it soon, but for this week, I wanted to run with my hot hand, which has been working on a story so old, and so secret, that it isn't even in the Lore of the Islands. It's the Legend of the Sleeping Fox. I hope you like it (even though it's only 7 sentences, so far)!

 



There is only one person in all the world that knows of the Little Fox, and he has not yet been born. 

She sleeps in her den in the forest that has never been seen. 

She waits for him to come. 

She waits and dreads, as all sentinels do. 

His awakening will bring with it the Great Change. 

The Great Change will bring with it, She-Who-Left. 

When She-Who-Left returns, the world will burn.

"Morpheus" by Lindsey Carr

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Weekend Writing Warriors: July 7, 2013

Weekend Writing Warrios

It's been quite a while, but I'm back!

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Here are eight more sentences of Creation, the lore of the Dakina Islands. 

I left off (way back in March!) my last 8 with Sahlaana abandoning her children. Each of the gods took an island for him/herself and refused to reconcile. On the tiny island of Dakina, a smaller drama began to unfold...






And so there came a time of great disharmony among the islands of Dakina.
Each god turned his back on his brothers and sister.
Each god swallowed his loneliness and wore his pride on his forehead.
On Taijala's island, the New People in the north were reviled by the First People in the south, who warred with them.
These wars lasted for many generations until, finally, the First People left the broken people of the bear alone in the dark woods, tribe-less and weak.
For a time, there was quiet; each island a world unto itself.
The gods became lazy and sick, refusing to acknowledge that in breaking the world into bits, they had fractured themselves, separating the Body from the Mind and Heart and Spirit.
The people became faithless, and the world magic-less…except on the tiny island where lived Taijala, Guardian of the Spirit. 

This ends the creation myth for the world of A BIRD'S EYE VIEW. My next excerpts will tell the various stories and legends of each island, beginning with The Legend of the White Raven. But you'll have to tune in again next week for it!

As always, thanks for reading! Don't forget to check out excerpts from the other writing warriors starting HERE!

Weekend Writing Warriors: Mar. 24, 2013

Weekend Writing Warriors

Ah, Sundays are coming so fast, I almost missed this one!

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This will be my last #8sunday until May because....I am going on a trip for the duration of April (WOOT!). If you have any interest in following my adventure in Europe, check out my other blog: MyCakeFace: Random Bloggery by AJ Bradley and/or my Tales of a Nomad facebook page.

Now, on to the excerpt! We left off with Sahlaana's sons pitching a fit and breaking the land into islands after they discovered their sister gave birth to a generation of people fathered by the mysterious bear.



Sahlaana was angry and in her rage, she abandoned her children and their people.
She warned them that there would be consequences to breaking Awaya’s earth.
Then she descended deep into the earth's core.
Taijala begged her brothers for reconciliation, afraid of the strain their desertion put on the net.
But each of them turned their backs on her and hid their regret under their anger.
Taijala and her children, the New People, migrated to the north of their tiny island in the eastern sea.
A small group of The First People lived on the tiny island; they stayed to the south, apart from the “others”. 
They blamed Taijala and the New People for causing Sahlaana to forsake them.


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Happy Spring. Happy Easter. Happy April.
I hope to see you again in May!

Weekend Writing Warriors: Mar.17, 2013

Weekend Writing Warriors

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When I left off last week, Taijala, the ruler of air and Guardian of the Spirit, had shared the workings of the Spiritworld with the people that Sahlaana had created.

The next part of the creation myth is the bear story that I shared on Feb.10th wherein Taijala mated with a mysterious bear that appeared as if from nowhere on the beach of Dakina.

This is what happens after the bear has continued on his way:




Taijala gave birth to an entire generation of people, the New People.
The New People were different; they had a magic all their own, the magic of the beasts inherited from their father, the bear.
The gods were angry with Taijala and afraid of this new magic.
Sahlanna's children fought.
Tiga, ruler of earth and Guardian of the Body, stomped his foot and broke Dakina into four separate islands.

Tanga, ruler of water and Guardian of the Mind, moved to the northernmost island and ruled its people.
Tana, ruler of fire and Guardian of the Heart, took the island and its people in the east.
Tiga stayed on the largest land mass in the centre, and he broke off the southern region where Sahlaana and Taijala were and kicked it far out into the Endless Sea.





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Weekend Writing Warriors: Mar.10, 2013

Weekend Writing Warriors

It's Weekend Writing Warriors again, woot! 

I keep trying to encourage you to join, and I really hope you will because it's great fun, and the writers at WeWriWa are amazingly talented and supportive. They are a fantastic community, JOIN!

Last week, I left off with Sahlaana creating people from the Raven's chucked up shells. Each one of her children gave the people something of themselves; something good and something bad. Taijala taught them about the net that binds all things and that this net must be maintained for the health of all the world. Here's what the people made of it all:



 

The people called this net, the Spiritworld; and the place on the other side of the net, they called The Afterworld.
When a person died, his spirit went to the Spiritworld, and there he was allowed to revel in every joy he caused during his life.
He was also made to suffer every hardship he caused.
When this was over, if he carried more joy than pain, Taijala allowed him into the Afterworld.
If he had lessons yet to learn, he was reborn into a new life under the net.
The people understood this.
They worked hard to keep peace and balance within themselves and in the world under the net.
For many generations, there was harmony in Dakina.


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Thanks for reading!  :)

Weekend Writing Warriors: Mar.3, 2013

It's Weekend Writing Warriors again!

If you would like to join the fun here are the rules. And don't forget to visit the WeWriWa website to read 8 sentences from the other writers!

Thanks again to all of you that read and commented last week, it really keeps me writing!

Last week's 8 showed how Sahlaana's brood of gods created the landscape, animals to inhabit it, and a spiritual net to bind them all together. Here is the next step in the creation myth of the Dakina Islands. (I'm sorry, I did get rather creative with my commas and semi-colons to fit this into 8 sentences.)



One day a raven fell from the sky.
He coughed and sea shells came up from his belly.
The sea shells tore the raven’s throat and destroyed his song forever.
Sahlaana gathered the shells in her hand and blew on them and the First People were born.
Tiga taught them to hunt and to harvest; he touched their bodies and gave them pleasure and pain.
Tanga taught them to fish the seas and streams; he touched their minds and gave them thoughtfulness and pride.
Tana taught them to make fire; he touched their hearts and gave them love and hate.
Taijala taught them to tend the net, for a single weak thread could unravel the whole; she wove them into the net and gave them connectedness and consequence.

And that's my 8 for this week. Thank you so much for reading and feel free to leave any comments or advice. Check out the fantastic excerpts by the other writers at Weekend Writing Warriors, and come back next week to find out how people effect the world of the Dakina Islands.

I would also like to say THANK YOU again to WeWriWa and Basan for the song they prized me with on my excerpt from Feb.10th (check it out to hear the song!). I've been bragging like crazy and sending it to everyone I know!