{"id":2398,"date":"2011-11-14T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2011-11-14T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:51:32","slug":"images-of-icefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"Images of Icefall"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little while ago, I wrote about the soundtrack I listened to while writing Icefall<\/em><\/span><\/a>. I mentioned then that I would also like to talk about the images that I had in my mind when writing the book. If you haven’t read Icefall<\/em>, you might want to stop here, because I think it’s important – and many readers prefer – to fill a book with their own mental imagery. But if you’ve read the book, and you want to see what I had in mind, read on. It might be interesting to see how our visions of the story compare.<\/p>\n

Icefall<\/em> takes place entirely within the confines of a small steading located in a remote fjord. As the book opens, Solveig stands at the edge of cliff looking down on the water.<\/p>\n

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But it is winter, so perhaps more like this:<\/p>\n

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Within the steading walls, the characters live in a traditional Scandinavian hall, which I always imagined to be a small, rustic outpost.<\/p>\n

From the outside:<\/p>\n

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And from the inside:<\/p>\n

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The steading is situated between “towering mountains and a frozen sea.” In the book, I describe the mountains as being like a procession of marching trolls.<\/p>\n

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But what Solveig sees…<\/p>\n

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The hall is also surrounded by woods, dense and forbidding regardless of the season.<\/p>\n

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Above the hall looms the glacier.<\/p>\n

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While a runestone stands silently in the woods below.<\/p>\n

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And lastly, here is an image I only found recently. It didn’t inform the character of Solveig, but I love that it includes a raven.<\/p>\n

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Writers often use a variety of tricks to get into the stories they’re writing, things that help us to enter the world of the story and make it real. For example, some writers clip pictures from magazines and other places to help them visualize characters or settings. Others use music, a song that perfectly and powerfully evokes a certain mood or feeling. I actually have a soundtrack I listened to while writing Icefall<\/em>, but I think I’ll save that for another post. Right now, I want to talk about the images that I had in my mind when writing the book.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t read Icefall<\/em>, you might want to stop here, because I think it’s important – and many readers prefer – to fill a book with our own mental imagery. But if you’ve read the book, and you want to see what I had in mind, read on. It might be interesting to see how are visions of the story compare. Click to see the images<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-icefall","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-CG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}