Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Been having slow going with writing for some time.

A whole fluffle of plot bunnies have all woken up and started to make eager suggestions about taking up their stories again.  At the same time, of course.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

William Faulkner

There's a hero. There's a heroine.

Both are superpowered because that was the opening that other characters used to exploit, or attempt to. But that doesn't say exactly what the powers are.

It has to suit their personalities, I remind myself. And the muse acts silly and ignores the question.

sigh

Sometimes you get an idea not from a complete work, but from a snippet or something.

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since aesthetics is a branch of philosophy. . . .

The oldest references to Robin Hood are records of people with the odd last name of Robinhood. Hood was a common name, Robinson was a common name, but using a first and last name stuck together was odd. They weren't all criminals, some were just listed on tax rolls and the like, but a good number were, and one was referred to as Robehod because he had been outlawed.

A collection of Robin Hood stories could brush on the "true story" of various Robin Hood ballads by having them happen to different characters. Which would make sense of the vast mishmash.

And also require more historical knowledge than I've got, so it remains speculation to me.

So here I am, intrepid writer, revising again.

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