{"id":1267,"date":"2021-06-01T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:59:49","slug":"travelling-as-the-green-children-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2021\/06\/01\/travelling-as-the-green-children-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling as the Green Children Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m mostly typing with my left hand still. One day my right hand will heal, just as, in Disney\u2019s universe, one day a prince will come. In the meantime, something else is on the way. Let me give you a link: https:\/\/madnessheart.press\/product\/the-green-children-help-out\/?v=6cc98ba2045f<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s my new novel.<\/p>\n

Some years ago I started work on an alternate universe where the English Jewish population is significantly larger than the one we know, where there are many types of magic and much administration to keep it polite and then I thought, \u201cI want a superhero novel set in that universe.\u201d More than that, I wanted the superheroes to come from our universe. I set up a pocket universe to bridge the two and wondered what it would be like if a twelve year old Australian girl entered by mistake and never left. I wrote a novella to test the idea and then I went to France in 2018, to research it.<\/p>\n

I researched many other things at the same time, for I\u2019m still and always an historian and I had many questions I needed answers for. My burning one (not for the novel) was what happens one hundred years after land is destroyed by war. How do people find culture, rebuild, talk about the past? I\u2019ll write about my discoveries one day.<\/p>\n

What I wrote into my novel was modern Amiens, and a town in my little pocket universe. The town\u2019s architecture came from what I learned about post-war building and the dances and culture I gave the good people of Tsarfat began there but included more recent French culture, both the good and the bad.<\/p>\n

While I wrote the novel I dreamed of a bal musette<\/i> in a country where people have green skin. I dreamed of what powers people could win by going through a dangerous door, and I listed all the different kinds of magic England could have based upon its history and historical beliefs.<\/p>\n

This is the moment before my dreams reach the outside world.<\/p>\n

Each novel has its own path in the outside world. I have a deep and vast desire with this one that readers will take my dreams and add their own, that they will walk in my France and my England and my Tsarfat. I took hundreds of pictures as my world came to life in my mind. To make it easier, I plan to share my pictures, some on Patreon in a few days, others on any website or at any online convention that wants to join my magic journey.<\/p>\n

Why do I have this deep and vast desire? An imagined journey is the perfect way to explore in this difficult time. I love the thought of safe excitement in the strange time we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m mostly typing with my left hand still. One day my right hand will heal, just as, in Disney\u2019s universe, one day a prince will come. In the meantime, something else is on the way. Let me give you a link: https:\/\/madnessheart.press\/product\/the-green-children-help-out\/?v=6cc98ba2045f It\u2019s my new novel. Some years ago I started work on an alternate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,166,8,56,20,19,64,18],"tags":[26,285],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-covid-life","category-fantasy","category-life-experiences","category-process","category-publishing","category-treehouse-news","category-writing","tag-gillian-polack","tag-the-green-children-help-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}