{"id":2671,"date":"2015-04-26T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:59:06","slug":"north-south-east-west-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/north-south-east-west-and-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"North, South, East, West \u2026 and Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Camp-Nanowrimo-2015-04-26.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" alt=\"Camp Nanowrimo 2015-04-26.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Has it only been 3 days? Since 1:37AM on Friday morning and now, I&#8217;ve written about 10,000 words. And I&#8217;m hoping to get 1,000 to 2,000 more words done tonight &#8211; ideally, 3,300 which will put me up to date on Camp Nanowrimo, so I can start to RELAX at last. But it&#8217;s left me a bit loopy, especially with static at work and from neighbors and with my wife&#8217;s art show coming up rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Oh hey, a quick aside on that:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sandi-Billingsley_KALEID-232x300.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"775\" alt=\"Sandi-Billingsley_KALEID-232x300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You all should go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidgallery.com\/2015\/04\/color-me-free-by-sandi-billingsley\/\">Color Me Free show by my wife Sandi Billingsley<\/a>, which starts this Friday at Kaleid Gallery in downtown San Jose &#8211; opening reception from 7 to 11, this Friday, May 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, back to procrastinating on these three thousand words. That looniness has been very, very creative! The story is really fleshing itself out in strange and unexpected ways. I quote a discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizaolmsted.com\/\">a fellow write<\/a>r who&#8217;s helping me research the science of the magic of the faery kingdom. Looking it over \u2026 hmm \u2026 seems pretty spoiler-free. So here is what I told her:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I discovered something about the fae in the Dakota Frost universe which I totally think you will appreciate because you also design faerie worlds. I can explain to you more the next time I see you on Tuesday [at the <a href=\"http:\/\/writetotheend.com\/\">Write to the End group<\/a>], but I figured out where they&#8217;re from, why they left, how they got here, why they&#8217;re so weird about names and fates and everything, and even why faerie is strange and pathless!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, the last one I got from that crocheting book [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.cornell.edu\/~dtaimina\/hypplanes.htm\">Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes<\/a>]: faerie has <i>hyperbolic geometry<\/i> &#8230; and hyperbolic geometry <i>cannot be contained in normal three dimensional space<\/i>. It&#8217;s like having a map with north, south, east, west and one more direction &#8211; the map folds up, wrinkles up like those crocheted hyperbolic planes &#8211; and the worst part will be the boundary of the human and faerie worlds, where, forced into a place where it won&#8217;t fit, it ultimately wrinkles over and starts crossing over itself! Neat, eh?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least I think it&#8217;s neat. Faerie has five cardinal directions: North, South, East, West \u2026 and Wonder! How inspirational! Onward! Only \u2026 a whole normal day&#8217;s writing ahead of me. Aaa!<\/p>\n<p>Still \u2026 onward, into wonder!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it only been 3 days? Since 1:37AM on Friday morning and now, I&#8217;ve written about 10,000 words. 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