Pico has been Reminisking, i e looking at old entries. here are some fun ones:
The carpenter sent a paper-bomb, attached to a messenger bird, to the palace of Fortune. 2005-06-18 18:21:00
-- This is mini!Pico writing a Dunsany-like fairy tale, except lulzier. I rather like it!
When I was in fourth grade they turned me into a tharicady.2005-09-15 23:52:00
-- This is mini!Pico writing ridiculosity. Serious ridiculosity! I look at this thing and wonder: could I salvage that? Would some, you know, surrealist magazine accept it?
And, finale:
I just had the most amazing dream in the world.2005-09-06 11:32:00
The root of all Olinscarr.
No, really. This dream was The Beginning. I didn't know it at the time, of course - I was jsut writing down an awesome dream I'd had. But then a few weeks later I started thinking about things like "story" and "what when" and such.
The Red Prince stayed. Lissa stayed. Dracalian is gone, and the box, and the changing, and anything else.
But ... wow.
(I'mna have to comb my old entries and see if there are any more old Olinscarr bits I've missed, because it is fun to see the very tiny origins of something that is now a daily part of my life.)