It's post no. 2 in About The Author August! Get excited and welcome new follower, Elizabeth to the cult club!
I'll be sharing three (okay more than three) facts about my work in progress, a sleepy hollow retelling. I'll set the mood with some pictures from my story board. One of my goals with this story is to have a good balance of the wild, beautiful, and pure & the dark, viscous, and gore. It tips very easily to either side because it's a beloved well known tale that has such dark elements. And I've taken the liberty of making it even darker. Like I feel like gagging sometimes reading my own scenes. I'll apologize to the future editor of this story now. Sorry.
a candle in the window is significant as this is how a certain character accidentally hails The Headless Horseman.
I aim for Sleepy Hollow to be lush, peaceful, and beautiful but burdened by the haunting of The Headless Horseman.
there may be severed limbs and needles with thread involved.
there are more than one spirit frequenting Sleepy Hollow in my story.
the horseman's steed is a Friesian stallion named Goliath. they're huge and terrifying and gorgeous.
cinnamon is prevalent in my book because The Headless Horseman uses it to cover the scent of his rotting flesh. i know. i'm ill.
If any of you are familiar with Irish folklore (I know for a fact two of my readers are), you may know of the Dullahan. An ancient spirit with no head who rides a black horse. He is traditionally male, but there are some versions in folklore with a female Dullahan (ummm career options ladies, just saying). He also has a whip made from a human spine. If he calls your name, you die. The original Headless Horseman was, I believe, derived from this mythological creature. Mine will also be heavily inspired by the Dullahan. At some point he acquires a whip from a horses spine. I considered giving him the name-saying power, but decided against it as I do not want him to be ALL powerful, just absolutely terrifying.
I realized that I already covered my favorite genres to write in my introduction post. oops. So, tomorrow I will be skipping that prompt and jumping to my writing space!
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