Monday, November 11, 2013

Maps & NaNo 2013

So I'm almost caught up on my WC, but haven't even begun writing for today. As of right now I have 17,891 words. So by the end of the day I expect to have reached the projected count of 20,000. Lol, we'll see about that one right?

Anyway, because I was getting confused as to where I was sending my characters off to (Was the watu border to the east or west of that mountain?) I started sketching out a map. A very nice person on the NaNo forums has offered to take that map and make it look like a real one. I'm very grateful and give her artistic freedom in the project, because (as you can see) this map may be useful to me, but it's not very good for a finished book. I know, I know, I'm not finished yet, but I'm feeling quite accomplished thanks to what I have done already.

So this is the rough sketch of my map and the labels I use are in a combination of Japanese kanji (yes it is different than Chinese) and Roman lettering. So for your convenience here's a key:
山 = mountain
森 = forest
川 = river
小川 = name Kokawa River
高山 =  name Taka Mountain (Mt. Taka)
今 = at this time















And here's the confused middle part of the map with the city name corrected to Saigo

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