Joely Sue Burkhart

Pretty decent progress on my short story.  I’m on target to finish the first draft by my self-imposed deadline of 4/8 (so I have time for revisions before the real deadline of 4/20).  I really like it, the emotions, the mythology, and most of all, how it sets up events for Night Sun Rising centuries later.  No severed hands this time—something worse.  This is the Maya after all, a people who believed in human sacrifice.

The Maya sure knew how to build a pyramid.

It’s the little things that please me as a writer.  The little details I’m sure no one else on earth would care about.  There’s still a great deal about the pyramids that we don’t know or understand exactly how the Maya accomplished it.  For instance, if you clap at the base of Kukulcan’s (the great feathered serpent) Pyramid in Chich’en Itza, you’ll hear a chirping sound suspiciously like the sacred blue-green plumed quetlz.  And at certain times of the year, the sun falls across the pyramid in such a way that it looks like a serpent is slithering down its side.  How awesome and impossible to comprehend that a basically Stone Age people created something like this.  And how much have we still not figured out yet? 

Have we done anything in this age so mystifying?  Will people sit around in a few hundred years and be amazed and bewildered and awed to silence by something we’ve created?  Just a few things I’m pondering as I write this story.

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Well of Sky progress

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