Ideas are everywhere.
I came up with the idea for this contraption on one of our long car drives through Eastern Oregon. I was thinking about book two and what horrors might befall poor Achan in Darkness. We drove past some of those huge, metal pylons that support electricity conductors. I got thinking of stories when a maiden would be sacrificed to a beast, how they’d hang her off something tall. The shape at the bottom of the pylons was triangular, which made me thing of how I wanted Barthos’ temple to be a pyramid. So I figured I could dangle Achan in that triangle somehow to sacrifice him to something hideous.
When I came to writing that scene, I did the best I could. But when Jeff read it, he was totally confused. So I drew some pictures of what I had pictured in my mind. What the altar and platform looked like and kind of a storyboard of what Achan did up there.
Here are my pictures. I am not the best artist.
Hi Jill! I’m halfway through “By Darkness Hid” for the CSFF Blog Tour and just wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying it :). Thanks for a great read!
Thanks, Rachel! 🙂
Way cool! Glad to see I’m not the only author who sketches out ideas before writing them. – Steve
Yeah. I’m a visual person. But this sketch was mostly to help Jeff. 🙂
Just read To Darkness Fled and when reading that scene I pictured it just like you sketched it. I really loved the first two books and can’t wait toread the next!
Thanks so much, Corrie! I’m glad my description worked. 🙂