{"id":109311,"date":"2024-06-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/townhouse\/?p=109311"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:00","slug":"a-hard-to-read-medieval-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/a-hard-to-read-medieval-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"A hard-to-read medieval hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Righto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, last week, in Feedback Friday, we were looking at your mysteries \u2013 not detective novels, for the most part, just places in your book where a mystery intrudes, presses itself at the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one of the things I noticed was that there\u2019s very often a sense of something&nbsp;<em>sacred<\/em>&nbsp;about the actual places or artefacts involved in these mysteries. So a letter, written in 1944 and being read by people in 1948, can have the quality of some treasured relic \u2013 a saint\u2019s bone, a lock of Mary Magdalene\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Place too can acquire this sense of being close to something magical \u2013 inhabited by spirits. As though a deserted house gathers some of the spirits you might expect to find at Stonehenge during Solstice, or Glastonbury Tor, or Tintagel Castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sense of powers that lie beyond the ordinary and known can enter any book at all. You\u2019re likely to find those passages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>portal\u00a0<\/strong><strong>scenes\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 any time that your character steps from one world into another, less known, world where the rules seem shifted. This could be a really ordinary type transition \u2013 a working class student entering some high end and ancient university for the first time, for example \u2013 in which case, the sense of the sacred clearly exists in the character\u2019s head alone. Or it could be more clearly linked to the spiritual \u2013 a Western adventurer entering some tribal burial ground, for example \u2013 in which case, the sense of the sacred is at least partly \u2018owned\u2019 by the space itself. Either way though, there\u2019s a transition which needs marking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where you have some kind of\u00a0<strong>relic<\/strong>. That could be a Dark Ages sword, obviously, but is more likely to be a family letter, or a heavy iron key, or a set of war medals. But the meaning and history attached to that relic can give it weight, no matter how ordinary the object or how (relatively) recent its past.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where you have a\u00a0<strong>place\u00a0<\/strong>around which some special sense hangs \u2013 a mystery, the past presence of someone important, a place heavy with memories from a different time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where you have a\u00a0<strong>person\u00a0<\/strong>that \u2013 even just temporarily \u2013 seems to shimmer with something a bit unworldly: a tiny flash of superpower, a hint of the mage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you find these moments in your book, I think it\u2019s good to ask yourself the question, \u2018Am I making the most of this?\u2019 If you\u2019re not writing fantasy, you can\u2019t jump straight into magic, but you can borrow some of the&nbsp;<em>tones<\/em>&nbsp;of magic. You can introduce a note of the strange and perhaps the sacred too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A very talented kids\u2019 author, who used to work as an editor for us, once told me that whenever he wrote a portal scene in one of fantasy novels, he always wrote it as poetry first, before tucking it back into prose. It\u2019s that sort of attitude that I think any of us can use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, by way of example, is a chunk from my&nbsp;<em>The Deepest Grave<\/em>. Th characters are in a remote Welsh church. They have just interrupted a robbery and are trying to figure out what the thieves had been looking to find. So far, they\u2019ve found nothing. Then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The light now has failed almost completely. The two men won\u2019t be found unless they\u2019re the stupidest or unluckiest criminals this side of Oswestry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The uniform goes. The forensic guy goes. The church lighting somehow just emphasises the darkness. It thickens the air into something yellowey-orange. Gluey.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We regather in the vestry, just because Katie\u2019s left her coat there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bowen lifts the 1953 fish-restaurant newspaper out of the wooden wall box.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018I suppose that can go.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He looks glumly at the mess behind the cupboard, knowing that it\u2019ll be his job to clean it. Katie looks into the box, now missing its newspaper floor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Glances once, then looks more sharply.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018No, that\u2019s not right,\u2019 she says, and starts picking at the bottom with a fingernail.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I already looked under the newspaper and saw just the pale, bleached colour of old pine \u2013 pine that has never seen the sun \u2013 but that was me being dumb. Me not knowing how to see.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Katie picks at the bottom and it comes away.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A sheet of paper, blank on the upper side, but with writing in clear purplish-black ink on the lower.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Latin text.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A hard-to-read medieval hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bowen stares. I stare. We all stare.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018Katie,\u2019 I say, \u2018This paper? We can get it dated, presumably?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the gluey light, she shakes her head.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018No. No, we can\u2019t.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018We can\u2019t?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There\u2019s something about this light, this thickened silence which makes everything seem slow, unnatural.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018We can\u2019t test this paper, because it isn\u2019t paper. It\u2019s vellum. A dead sheep, basically, scraped clean and stretched out thin.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, this is a cop and archaeologist just doing their job. But those comments about the \u2018gluey\u2019 light and \u2018this thickened silence\u2019 give the moment the quality of something like the discovery of a sacred relic \u2013 as though some other, more ancient, world were suddenly touching this. That\u2019s sharpened up, I think, by a sense of these layers of history: from a 1953 newspaper to Latin text, from a sheet of paper to a sheet of vellum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are the signals that, if you like, lie in some external reality. But the characters\u2019 reaction also expresses their sense of transition: \u2018Bowen stares. I stare. We all stare.\u2019 The way everything come to \u2018seem slow, unnatural.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the characters are feeling that, the reader does too. And what could have been an ordinary moment in a detective novel, temporarily at least, wears the clothes of something deeper, older, stranger and perhaps more magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poetry, then prose. The magical, in the ordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is a power you can seize, if you choose to seize it. I hope you do. There\u2019s another chunk from the same book that operates as a proper portal moment: a transition that, in this case, involves a literal door. Again, I didn\u2019t write that passage thinking about portals and fantasy and magic \u2026 but those things are present nonetheless. I\u2019ve popped that chunk into the relevant Feedback Friday forum, so you can see it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget about that\u00a0<em>How To Write<\/em>\u00a0Course. I\u2019ve done all-new videos for it, and the feedback from the first viewers has been all positive. You can take the first lesson for free now, the rest is available for Premium Members only. Details on how to join <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/join-us\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/join-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Fantasy \/ Magical<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three weeks back, inspired by historical fiction, we looked at research. Two weeks ago, inspired by romance, we looked at the Absent Beloved. Last week, inspired by crime, we asked you to find mystery. This week \u2013 inspired by fantasy or any kind of magical realism \u2013 I want you to find a moment where some sense of the magical or sacred intrudes into your book. That could be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discovery of a \u2018relic\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A portal moment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some shifting sense of a character possessed of a not-quite explicable power<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A place that has a touch of something beyond the ordinary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are writing out and out fantasy, then those moments will be easy to find, obviously. If you\u2019re note writing fantasy, then those moments still probably exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I will say is that you may well find (let\u2019s say) a portal moment in your book that slightly misses or underplays its sense of magic. So do please feel free to edit \/ rewrite those moments before uploading them to Townhouse. Try pushing the magical gas pedal a little and see if people like the results. You could even try writing the scene as poetry first, before putting it back into prose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think Sofia Samatar talking about \u2018the strange, the weird, the speculative\u2019 is quite inspirational here. It almost feels more fun to me finding the strange in a book that is basically not strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what I\u2019m after this week is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1-2 sentences of explanation,&nbsp;<\/strong>as needed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>250 words<\/strong>&nbsp;where something a bit like magic intrudes into your book. Some sense of a dimension beyond the ordinary. I really don\u2019t mind if what we\u2019re seeing here is a trace \u2013 a hint \u2013 a suggestion and nothing more. Just&nbsp;<em>something<\/em>&nbsp;to suggest that dimension beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m kind of interested to see what you make of this task. I\u2019m quite interested to think what I\u2019d find in my own books too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it from me. We\u2019re getting our one week of English summer this week \u2013 with actual sunlight \u2013 and the kids are celebrating by running around half-naked and building barricades in the garden. Teddy told me, quite peaceably, that he needed a better weapon, and marched off (mostly naked) to find one. He came back with an eight-foot fencepost. I didn\u2019t intervene, but am mildly worried as to what will happen next. Post yours\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/townhouse\/forums\/forum\/harrys-feedback-friday\/feedback-friday-28-june-fantasy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/townhouse\/forums\/forum\/harrys-feedback-friday\/feedback-friday-28-june-fantasy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Til soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Righto. 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