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Silvermist, Capital City of Selen

Tuesday 26 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, background, fantasy, fiction, selen, song of the black swan, writing

26 June 2012 The main setting for “Song of the Black Swan” is the city of Silvermist, the capital city of its country, Selen. Silvermist stands on an outcropping of dense rock at the top of a high palisade, in the middle of the River Argen, which,…

Symbology

Tuesday 26 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, background, fantasy, fiction, song of the black swan, symbology, writing

Zero (Nothingness) One (Singularity, Oneness, Agreement) Two (Duality, Binary, Opposition) Three (Trinity, Daughter/Sister/Mother, Maiden/Warrior/Crone) Five (The Pentacle, The Elements, the beginning of schooling…elay, sweela, torz, hunti, coru…a…

Athren Calendar

Tuesday 26 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, calendar, fantasy, fiction, song of the black swan, writing

“Four Seasons” by Alphonse Mucha, 1895 (I’m not going to edit this post that originally went up on my Tumblr. I think you can figure it out.) My calendar is a solar seasonal calendar of 365 or 366 days. The first day of the year is Midwinter’s Day…

Casting Decisions

Tuesday 26 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, avaïa carasel, fantasy, fiction, song of the black swan, susan coffey, writing

I like to find pictures of people on the Internet who look like the characters I see in my head. For the character of Avaïa Carasel, that person is Susan Coffey. This was the first picture I ever saw of Susan. Someone posted it to Tumblr, I think,…

Concerning Certain Aspects of Faeries (Fata spp.)

Monday 25 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren

(“Hadas” by Jaime Ibarra. This picture was the inspiration for the following article.) The oxygen transport of Faerie (Fata spp.) blood is accomplished via hemocyanin, rather than hemoglobin as in humans (Homo spp.). As a result, their oxygenated …

Song of the Black Swan, Chapter 1

Monday 25 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, fantasy, fiction, song of the black swan, writing

(photo: “Leaves”, Susan Coffey, shot by Emily Tebbetts) The air in the forest was thick, heavy with moisture, the earthy smell of leaf mould slowly, inexorably turning to soil. Avaran pushed aside a low hanging pine bough, hoping a better view lay…

Song of the Black Swan

Monday 25 June 2012 · by Gemma Seymour | in Uncategorized | tagged athren, fantasy, fiction, song of the black swan, writing

25 June 2012 For many years, I have thought about writing a book of some sort. Today, I received news that a friend of mine, Imogen Binnie, is going to have her novel published by a company run by another friend of mine, Topside Press, run by Tom …

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