Goats. That's all I ask for, a handful of goats.
The biggest problem facing SORROW'S KNOT at the moment? Goats.
So I have somehow managed to construct a plot that depends on yarn in a setting that had no yarn -- historically speaking, it seems the various cultures of the Great Plains used no spinnable fibers of any kind. This is the sort of dilemma that only a person of my peculiar plotting genius could come up with, I'm sure. (See "miniature French poodle, plotting ability of.")
It's hard to explain why I just don't want to take the off-screen culture in this story (who the Shadowed People of the forest call the Sunlit People) and give them a few herds of goats. The Shadowed People trade with the Sunlit People for lots of things, and I had hoped spinnable fiber, or finished but undyed yarn, could be one of them. And sure, in my head I know that the Sunlit People roughly correspond to the Sioux or one of the other nomadic buffalo-people tribes. But that's never stated. And they're never on-screen. So why not just give them goats?
But I can't. It feels utterly wrong.
Bother.
On the bright side, I've learned that skin cordage can hold dyes. That might be my out.
Darn facts. They get me every time.
So I have somehow managed to construct a plot that depends on yarn in a setting that had no yarn -- historically speaking, it seems the various cultures of the Great Plains used no spinnable fibers of any kind. This is the sort of dilemma that only a person of my peculiar plotting genius could come up with, I'm sure. (See "miniature French poodle, plotting ability of.")
It's hard to explain why I just don't want to take the off-screen culture in this story (who the Shadowed People of the forest call the Sunlit People) and give them a few herds of goats. The Shadowed People trade with the Sunlit People for lots of things, and I had hoped spinnable fiber, or finished but undyed yarn, could be one of them. And sure, in my head I know that the Sunlit People roughly correspond to the Sioux or one of the other nomadic buffalo-people tribes. But that's never stated. And they're never on-screen. So why not just give them goats?
But I can't. It feels utterly wrong.
Bother.
On the bright side, I've learned that skin cordage can hold dyes. That might be my out.
Darn facts. They get me every time.