Well, I have nothing to do.
Well, technically I do. I could be doing Earth-Space homework. I could be working on my prom dress (I finished the front of it this morning! SIKE!). I could be doing calculus. But I'm choosing to blog instead, because I can. Also, because I'm thoroughly incapable of getting a significant amount of calculus done in half an hour, which is all the time that I have before lunch. I'll get to it later, now that I probably don't have a film shoot later today.
This morning, during one of my other free blocks, I decided to look up some Shakespearean settings. Why?
Remember my NaNoWriMo novel last year, the one about the girl who was named Romeo and all the characters were named after Shakespearean people and stuff?
I'm working on building up that world, and because of that, I decided I needed a map of Mercanova, the country where it's set. And, following in the whole everything-except-the-country-and-the-novel's-title-is-derived-from-Shakespeare vein, I decided to name all the cities, rivers, seas, forests, towns, and mountain ranges after Shakespearean locations (which are also real locations, technically, but whatever).
So, for example, the capital city is Verona, the main setting of "Romeo and Juliet" (since my MC is Romeo, I felt obliged). Puck goes to Mantua as part of his back-story, when he is unofficially banished from his faerie tribe (as Romeo Montague was). There's Wizard Island, where banished wizards are sent (Prospero and kind of Belarius), which is in the middle of a sea that I forget the name of that forms the Eastern border. Romeo, Demetrius, and Puck meet Belarius/ Morgan in the Forest of Arden, from "As You Like It." The castle name is Elsinore (and the King and Queen are Hamlet and Ophelia). The Roma Mountains form the Western border (derived from Rome, where a good third of Shakespearean shows are set); the Athenian Forest ("Midsummer") is to the south. There are a scattering of other cities and towns as well, but I don't remember the names of all of them. Several of the rivers have names as well, but I don't feel like pulling out my notebook and recalling what they are. I'll figure that out later.
Unfortunately, Shakespeare did not have a location that might have been labeled "here be dragons," so I just wrote "here be dragons" until I can figure out something more apt.
So that's what's happening right now.
Huzzah!
Also, remember my NaNoWriMo novel two years ago? The one based off of a video game and had a knight and stuff?
I just picked that up to start writing it again.
Huzzah!
Right. I must be off. I have stuff to attend to. Like writing.
And world-building.
And homework.
And knitting a prom dress.
