Hunting season

[wiseheart]

... seems to have started. Ithilwen isn't the only one who got bitten lately.


Yestereve I got bitten by a very specific plotcritter (they are like plotbunnies, just smaller and more insistent, so they get literally everywhere). So I found myself writing on a prequel to "Cold Comfort". It's decades before the Ring War and describes how Finduilas helped her hubby to get rid of that annoying Thorongil.

I found myself introducing Denethor's older sisters, Morwen of Lossarnach visiting her relatives shortly before Thengel's death and a circle of quiet, elegant and incredibly dangerous high-born noblewomen deciding that no matter how useful Thorongil might be for Gondor, pushing the Steward's Heir into the background is not a Good Thing(TM).

The ladies are positively frightening. So is what my muse is doing with me. Why, o why am I not allowed to finish my ongoing projects first, before I jump into a new one?

Comments

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Good luck dealing with the plotcritter infestation! Maybe calling an exterminator in to fumigate your place would help? from the description you gave of them, plotcritters seem to bear a remarkable resemblance to roaches...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They can be bothersome at times, but what would I do without them? My main problem is that I have too many ideas and not enough time. I've five different ideas to the Dúnadan Project, for example, complete with already beta-ed prologues that will tie them to the LOTR-timeframe, so that people can get easier access. And Gildor's whole biography that needs to be written one day. And Thranduil's great and tragic tale... *sighs*

And I haven't even examined closely the idea about the Necromancer and some Elven wraiths...