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August 22, 2004
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In two hours of writing, I only managed one page. Curses.
Part of it is simply that I had to describe a whole lot of city and think about architecture and layout and...BLECH. In this, visiting Spain was priceless. I now have some idea of what medieval cities should look like and just how goddamn claustrophobic they are. It also helps that there were TWO bigass cathedrals in the city I went to. And it was on a river, so there were bridges. Kind of like a small scale version of the city I'm building in my head now.
Part of it is also that I'm once again trying to figure out how to present the next bit of information, so I spent a couple hours on the couch, drawing it out. I now have very crude, very badly drawn examples of the temple of Aiur. No, I'm not going to post it. (I suck even more at still life than I do at drawing portraits.)
I'll probably go back upstairs now and draw out a map of the city, plus the bits of architectural oddity it has chosen to tell me about.
Either that, or rub a clay mask on my face.
BLARRRR.
Posted by sdshaver at August 22, 2004 11:12 PM