
So I’ve still been doing a lot of research- type stuff for the Peddler’s Tales, the next short story. There’s a whole lot to figure out since I want to be somewhat historically accurate, but then on the other hand, I’m like “maybe I should just start working on it now…” I am over eager to start it but I already feel like it’s getting bigger and bigger… For instance, it takes place in the 1700′s for part of the time and James and I just randomly picked Eastern Europe. It’s a fascinating time period! The story takes place on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire so there is this great cultural mix between Middle Eastern and Western European style, religion, and culture. And it just so happens that at this time everybody wore these really extravagant patterned, layered clothes. Think Aladdin and then mix in hoop skirts, and Pilgrims and add a lot of decor and you’ve basically got how people dressed back then. And now I have to draw that. Everybody gets multiple patterns on their clothes too and they’re all different so that should be interesting how that all turns out. It will be really hard for me to not give up halfway for all these pages! It’s a big goal but it’s broken down fairly well and I just started putting all the info into Scrivener, so I hope it will turn out for the better and I won’t freak out about it too much >.<