Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Thistledown — Midsummer Bedlam

I’m hard at work getting Thistledown — Midsummer Bedlam ready for publication as a book.  Meanwhile, how about some whimsical hump day fun? Have you ever thought about what your name might be if you were a whimsical magical creature?

If you were following when I posted that tale of faeries as a serial in 2017, you might already have a faery name. (With research and personal taste, faery is my preferred spelling of “fairy.”)

Back then, some people picked their own whimsical names, and I created some names especially for people.  Most people used a chart similar to what I’ve included below.

Thistledown — Midsummer Bedlam is a wildly whimsical tale, but I wrote it for adults.  It has a dark undercurrent.  The characters include both the colorful Thistledown faeries, and “scary faeries” from the colorless world.  I’ve included…