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some untidy bullety thoughts about "this mortal coil" (which, hey, new nano = new tag, y/y?). don't mind me. it's mostly housekeeping anyway.

• sean o'neill? is that just way too easy a name? i feel like a guy living in 16th century ireland, a victim of the 9 yrs war, should definitely have a more... authentic (? is that even the right word here? that's like a 'white' substitute for 'ethnic' isn't it?) or at least time appropriate name. maybe actual gaelic, not that anyone would be paying attention to that.
  • side note: this totally means, though, that for a portion of the novel i'll get to use all that research i did on irish gaelic for my old baby xsintrickx . YES. (totally not a plug for one of my boring old RP characters. i always feel as if i've shafted him somehow, even if he did get the happy i would strive for--fiancee, college degree, boats and dancing...)
• so the beginning is all Braveheart-esque, followed up with a drunken 17th century King Lear type sendoff (crazy, collapses, dies) into the Wild Hunt (Ghost Riders in the Sky). FFwd to late 1800s, and we meet current hero(?) Joe Stoddard. (hah, average joe?) joe gets your typical western.
• i'm almost entirely sure that sean will reappear as the voice: "cowboy, change your ways today, or with us you will ride trying to catch the devil's herd across these endless skies."
• possibility for redemption?? for both, i mean.
• did you know that a western is possibly the WORST worst choice of novel ever?
• thinking of putting stoddard in the 1875 time period, disillusioned with the fight against the lakota. maybe some officers took advantage of the love of his life? rape and murder.
  
  • hey. no one liked pinkertons. besides, they got paid ridiculously and they must've been some mean sumbiches.

that's at least the start of my thinkiness. i have the vague notion. just not enough to write anything as yet. it may be because i'm dying of wisdom toothache right now that i can't think anymore.