The Tree of Vines

And started to write The Tree of Vines for 2021! Started a little later, but I feel like I've got a few pages in me of content for this month. Admittedly, that's not a whole lot, but I do think it'll be more than last January, for what difference that makes. I can't believe 2020 was my first full year of writing The Tree of Vines. It went by so fast! The evidence that I still managed to write 73 pages makes it clear that a year really did pass. I wish I wrote as much as I did in 2019, but at the same time I don't regret waiting for ideas to bake in my head before I'd continue writing. The story is and will always be focused on the world, characters, and their histories, but it's intensely difficult to do this without one or the other. It feels like there was a long time I had neither to introduce, and therefore had it on a hiatus. Of course, this year is very unlikely to be any different, but I hope I can write more pages. Maybe 80 pages? The exact amount of

 I love music as much as anyone, and amongst one of the many things I look forward to is the music. To me, the music is extremely important in establishing atmosphere, and this is really, really hard to depict without knowing your instruments and how to write music for them. I do not, but at least I know what instruments I associate with the sounds of Tree of Vines.  This list, in all likelihood, is to change and be added to. Ideally, I'd like to also divide it by eras... the following list should be more or less self explanatory in the context of The Tree of Vines. War of the Lords Era  Taiko drummers Traditional Japanese festival drummers. Sounds very war like, and at one time were used as such Carnyx An ancient Celtic horn. Eerie sounding, and most important ancient sounding. I think it depicts the war and history of this world  Native American Flute An instrument used for mysticism, ancient mysteries and magics. In a sense, I imagine these the most in a Native American sort of