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[telophase]

trobadora is thinking about writing, and is asking about characters, especially in large groups - how do you keep them distinct?

I'm still working through the replies on matociquala's Writing the Other post (why do these big-reaction subjects only come up when I need t be focusing on coding?), but there's a lot of repercussion going on in and around my f-list right now, including several links to deepad's response here.

Haven't read through sartorias's essay Urban Fantasy and Grrlz yet; posting here to remind myself.


And thoughts of this came up when reading the comments - a 1997 artice from the Miami New Times about a whole folklore developed among homeless children in Miami.

To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they nibble on the NationsBank building -- always drenched in a green, pink, or golden glow. "They eat light so they can fly," eight-year-old Andre tells the children sitting on the patio of the Salvation Army's emergency shelter on NW 38th Street. Andre explains that the angels hide in the building while they study battle maps. "There's a lot of killing going on in Miami," he says. "You want to fight, want to learn how to live, you got to learn the secret stories." The small group listens intently to these tales told by homeless children in shelters.

Absolutely fascinating. And I wonder why I haven't seen anything based on or developed out of this article? (Unless it's in the urban fantasy that's populating the shelves right now that I'm avoiding because I burned out on it years ago...)

Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Angels eating light to fly... awesometastic!

I didn't step in fairy rings, I remember that one. If you stepped in a fairy ring you could drag something out behind you.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I didn't step in them, either.

Of course my childhood folklore was completely buggered by getting my hands on a copy of Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Legends of Schoolchildren at an impressionable age. So I may have been single-handedly responsible for spreading British children's folklore of the first half of the century around central Texas schoolyards. XD