Odin – a god, but by other names Boverk (Evil-doer), Gangleri (walk-weery), Harbard (grey-beard), Helblindi (hel blind), Svipal (changeable), Sidhotd (long-hood), Vak (wakeful), Ygg (terrible) – I like Gangleri as the name for the twenty-first century counterpart of my “Stranger/Emrys” type of character – a god in human form walking the lands.
Bifrost (the shaking-road) – a bridge between earth and heaven – basically a rainbow it’s part of our world when the rain an sun are in the world together.
Tree of life – an ash – not one leaf falls whilst the world endures.
So… researchers/scientists are trying to reach heaven and they have identified the Bifrost as the means of doing this. They have established a way of locking onto the bridge and reaching it – something which scholars have previously only dreamed of doing.
In affecting the Bifrost the tree of life is damaged and the world begins to come undone.
I then have two stories:
a) Helen is lost in the mountains – she survives against the odds.
b) The scientists breach the Bifrost and the Tree of life begins to loose it’s leaves.
The time scale of the former puts our characters (Helen, Ben and Urður) in the highlands at the same time as the latter – and they encounter Gangleri…
I’d not really considered public LJ brainstorming. Do you find it very useful?
Nor had I really, till now…?!! I’d had these thoughts last night, and for my benefit as much as anything decided to put them down in my journal to see what happens.
It might make me look at the ideas differently and say to myself yayy, it might make me say “are you crazy?!!” … someone else might say either of those themselves … we shall see…
I certainly have reams of notes that cover all the ongoing plot changes (or rather all the plot ‘possibles’ since everything I’ve come up with so far stays in the melting pot indefinitely). Maybe it’s a good idea for me to create a book brainstorming filter and add people like as may be interested in being a sounding board.
Well if you decide to you can definitely allow me in to peruse them and make suggestions, constructive comments and the like – would be kind of like a global version of the writer’s craft classes I used to go to at college (ah, ‘dem was the days…)
How do you get those Friends filters to work properly by the way? Whenever I try to set people up in different groups I end up getting loads of lj_news posts filling my regular friends Friends page??
I’ve not had that problem with the friends filters. I just use the Semagic client to set up my groups and make sure that is only in the Default View.