Status report

15,171 / 50,000 (30.3%)

Moving along, still on schedule.

For anyone following the story, the first seven chapters are posted here.

I seem to have reached the point where the characters are telling me what to write. Always happens once you get far enough along. ;P

Another one on target...

From corelog

( How did 'Tivo survive the end of the world? )

The madness continues...

17,111 / 50,000 (34.2%)

More than a third to the NaNoWriMo goal, if not to the end of the whole story. The conclusion of chapter 7 and all of chapter 8 are now posted here. Everyone has heard of Pegasus, even if they don't know the story of his origin. But how many know about Arion, another equine son of Poseidon who was born after the sea god seduced Demeter while both were in horse form? Menander tells the story of Arion in passing, because he is explaining his mother's line of descent. Unlike Pegasus, Arion was a full god in his own right, being a son of two immortal parents. As such, he was not only immortal but had the gift of speech, which he used to advise his rider Adrastus in the uprising of the Seven against Thebes. Heady and obscure stuff, that.

Even I didn't know about Arion. I swear I didn't until today, and these goofy characters led me by the forelock to show him to me. Sure enough, he's in the various dictionaries of Greek legend and myth. ;P