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That's taken care of now, I think.
In addition to my chapter assembling and other editing, I've been trying to put together another idea. This one's not something that I've fully fleshed out as of yet, but I know a few of the elements already. I've been gorging myself on Japanese culture for a while, but recently, I've been drowning in the samurai concept.
Samurai movies: The Last Samurai, Yojimbo, Versus (to a limited degree).
Samurai music: The Last Samurai soundtrack, various Princess Mononoke and Inuyasha mp3s.
Samurai video games: Samurai Warriors.
Samurai books: Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn; The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, by Mark Ravina.
Funny thing is, except for the book on Saigo Takamori, none of those inspired this idea. What I've thought up is a story in three time periods, each featuring a main character of a shared bloodline. The earliest point would be around 1600 and feature the Battle of Sekigahara. The second would take place during the Satsuma Rebellion and feature a follower of Saigo Takamori. The third would be close to the present, starring a kendo instructor who taught Commander to use a katana.
A lot of the structure is similar to a book a read about six months ago, Autumn Bridge, by Takeshi Matsuoka. It's a multi-generational story set during the Warring States period, the Meiji Restoration, and post-Meiji Tokyo/San Francisco. It features a unique concept on prophetical messages--information imparted by a spirit fron the past is actually a conversation a living woman had hundreds of years earlier with a vision of the future. The other time periods are ghosts, be they from the past or the future.
In addition to my chapter assembling and other editing, I've been trying to put together another idea. This one's not something that I've fully fleshed out as of yet, but I know a few of the elements already. I've been gorging myself on Japanese culture for a while, but recently, I've been drowning in the samurai concept.
Samurai movies: The Last Samurai, Yojimbo, Versus (to a limited degree).
Samurai music: The Last Samurai soundtrack, various Princess Mononoke and Inuyasha mp3s.
Samurai video games: Samurai Warriors.
Samurai books: Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn; The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, by Mark Ravina.
Funny thing is, except for the book on Saigo Takamori, none of those inspired this idea. What I've thought up is a story in three time periods, each featuring a main character of a shared bloodline. The earliest point would be around 1600 and feature the Battle of Sekigahara. The second would take place during the Satsuma Rebellion and feature a follower of Saigo Takamori. The third would be close to the present, starring a kendo instructor who taught Commander to use a katana.
A lot of the structure is similar to a book a read about six months ago, Autumn Bridge, by Takeshi Matsuoka. It's a multi-generational story set during the Warring States period, the Meiji Restoration, and post-Meiji Tokyo/San Francisco. It features a unique concept on prophetical messages--information imparted by a spirit fron the past is actually a conversation a living woman had hundreds of years earlier with a vision of the future. The other time periods are ghosts, be they from the past or the future.
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