More creative considerations
May. 4th, 2004 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxWell, this could be interesting: A couple of comments on the pagan list so far have made me realize that I was going about the novel's backstory somewhat wrong. Organized religions are fine. I just don't want the constant oppression, even though it's inevitable. It's human. We want people on our side. We want people to believe in us, fight for us, love with us, understand us. And some of us will do anything for it. Even kill. That's the whole point of my main plot, isn't it? The Shadow, representing the primal darkness, wants humanity wiped clean and done over. It possesses a human mind that's already warped, and orders a lot of death. All for the sake of its theories of "this is what I want, this what I think is best."
So my new project will probably just involve something simpler. Obviously, psionics and magic are well-known, but they don't need to be everything. There are plenty of people in that world who are afraid, who want to stop it all. Just like things going on now. It's a cycle, isn't it? It's been happening since the beginning of time. If something is taken too much to one side, there's no balance. No love without hate, no light without dark, and all that.
That's the plight of my main characters: To prevent the world from collapsing into sheer imbalance. I was trying to explain the book to Mom, and what I came out with was that the balance of good and evil needs to be restored, so evil can't be destroyed, just pushed back and contained. Mom joked a little, saying that it was like two cosmic siblings, one calm, one wild; and the wild one is getting out of control, so the calm one needs to take its sibling down a few pegs and remind it that it can't go rampaging across the universe free of its sibling, without consequences to both.
Yeah. I like that.
So my new project will probably just involve something simpler. Obviously, psionics and magic are well-known, but they don't need to be everything. There are plenty of people in that world who are afraid, who want to stop it all. Just like things going on now. It's a cycle, isn't it? It's been happening since the beginning of time. If something is taken too much to one side, there's no balance. No love without hate, no light without dark, and all that.
That's the plight of my main characters: To prevent the world from collapsing into sheer imbalance. I was trying to explain the book to Mom, and what I came out with was that the balance of good and evil needs to be restored, so evil can't be destroyed, just pushed back and contained. Mom joked a little, saying that it was like two cosmic siblings, one calm, one wild; and the wild one is getting out of control, so the calm one needs to take its sibling down a few pegs and remind it that it can't go rampaging across the universe free of its sibling, without consequences to both.
Yeah. I like that.
