Dates

Last Tuesday I received my Kindle 2 in the mail. It's absolutely fantastic. I haven't bought anything in the store, just downloaded things from Project Gutenberg and put on some PDFs I've got. Wonderful piece of technology. Named her Toroko (keeping with my Cave Story theme).

I've been reading The Nibelungenlied and I got to thinking about writing great heroes in the distant past of my stories. Winter will have none of that now, I'm doing my best to keep it entirely self-contained (seems best for the story). So my other option is The East which lends itself much better to ancient heroes. But the problem arose when I got to thinking about when to set the heroic exploits. Previously, I had Uruz' story happening in something like the 4,000th year since the elves entered the world (Early drafts listed it as the 7,000th). I now feel this is much to early, what with elves living so long. Even with my elves living mostly only to 600 (at oldest), that is still only a very short time. I am now beginning to think that the year should be shifted more towards 10,000. Maybe 8,000. I like that much better as a number, but I don't know if it will do as a date.

So many problems with things. Right now, though, I feel I must concern myself with Winter as I am currently filled with ideas for it which have not yet been put down to words. But no writing at this time of night, I must to bed.