I'm falling a wee tad behind in Camp Nano again: nothing irredeemable, but enough to make me think of stopping procrastinating. I have seventeen thousand words to write before next week. Bleah. It'll be done.
I've been writing piecemeal, jumping from scene to scene using the writing program scrivener, but I think I'll stop now and go back to a more linear style as I feel it's more momentum building.
Anyway, here are some of the songs I've been drawing inspiration from and which (may) play a role in Fosterling.
Niamh Parsons singing Fear a Bhata (the boatman). There are a million versions - I think I heard Capercaillie's first, but I'm partial to hers at the moment.
Silly Wizard and The Queen of Argyll, written by Andy M. Stewart and performed... awhile ago. I first heard it covered down at the Port Fairy Folk Festival at least a decade ago - you know, when I still camped. (I'm not sure if that was the year our tents flooded and I had to spend most of the last night in the car, along with my brother and three of his sodden mates... there are reasons I hate camping!) and I thought even back then the song had potential for story. Anyway, I'm fairly sure my central character, Jack/Lugh is going to sing this for his foster-mum just before he goes back to the Otherworld for good. Maybe at the Port Arlington Celtic Festival?
Still to be decided.
I've been writing piecemeal, jumping from scene to scene using the writing program scrivener, but I think I'll stop now and go back to a more linear style as I feel it's more momentum building.
Anyway, here are some of the songs I've been drawing inspiration from and which (may) play a role in Fosterling.
Niamh Parsons singing Fear a Bhata (the boatman). There are a million versions - I think I heard Capercaillie's first, but I'm partial to hers at the moment.
Silly Wizard and The Queen of Argyll, written by Andy M. Stewart and performed... awhile ago. I first heard it covered down at the Port Fairy Folk Festival at least a decade ago - you know, when I still camped. (I'm not sure if that was the year our tents flooded and I had to spend most of the last night in the car, along with my brother and three of his sodden mates... there are reasons I hate camping!) and I thought even back then the song had potential for story. Anyway, I'm fairly sure my central character, Jack/Lugh is going to sing this for his foster-mum just before he goes back to the Otherworld for good. Maybe at the Port Arlington Celtic Festival?
Still to be decided.
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