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My mom has said in the past, and I'm sure she'll say it again, that in order to be an expert, you have to get 50 miles away from home. In other words, people don't always appreciate your genius on a local scale: feel free to branch out into the world!
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jeff_duntemann and I had a conversation about how writers are often not experts, but generalists. I tend to think of myself in those terms -- I know a lot of random stuff about several broad subjects, but I'm not expert in any singular area. However, it looks like here at Myth, the Universe, and Everything, someone thinks we know something about mythology. I got a great ego boost of an e-mail from a designer named Lee, who's working on a logo for a storytelling conference. The team would like to use an icon from mythology -- any culture, any age -- as a starting point, and they're short on the type of random knowledge that I (and many of you readers out there) have off the top of our heads (or with a little quick internet research to back us up). I had a ton of fun trying to come up with objects and ideas that fit the list of possibilities that Lee sent me, so I thought I'd share them here (with his permission). If you have brilliant suggestions for any of the topics, please chime in! I'll pass your answers along to Lee as well, and see what kind of juices get flowing on his design team.
Here they are:
1. An object given to a hero to see the future.
2. An object given to a hero that allows him/her to step into a new world/realm.
3. A structure/entrance that acted as a gateway to a new world.
4. An object given to a hero to help him/her find his/her way out of the labyrinth (or a general state of confusion or blindness).
5. An object used in storytelling ceremonies that gives the holder permission to speak to the group.
What do you think?
A long time ago,
jeff_duntemann and I had a conversation about how writers are often not experts, but generalists. I tend to think of myself in those terms -- I know a lot of random stuff about several broad subjects, but I'm not expert in any singular area. However, it looks like here at Myth, the Universe, and Everything, someone thinks we know something about mythology. I got a great ego boost of an e-mail from a designer named Lee, who's working on a logo for a storytelling conference. The team would like to use an icon from mythology -- any culture, any age -- as a starting point, and they're short on the type of random knowledge that I (and many of you readers out there) have off the top of our heads (or with a little quick internet research to back us up). I had a ton of fun trying to come up with objects and ideas that fit the list of possibilities that Lee sent me, so I thought I'd share them here (with his permission). If you have brilliant suggestions for any of the topics, please chime in! I'll pass your answers along to Lee as well, and see what kind of juices get flowing on his design team.Here they are:
1. An object given to a hero to see the future.
2. An object given to a hero that allows him/her to step into a new world/realm.
3. A structure/entrance that acted as a gateway to a new world.
4. An object given to a hero to help him/her find his/her way out of the labyrinth (or a general state of confusion or blindness).
5. An object used in storytelling ceremonies that gives the holder permission to speak to the group.
What do you think?
