mackknopf | False Gods Summary (Reply)

Tagline: "Mutant Gods"

Egypt's first atheist, a scribe, and a true believer, a priestess, find their lives troubled by Amun, the Hidden God, thought long dead when the current pantheon took over. Five thousand years ago, they travel to the capital city of the Two Lands, now one, to ask help from Osiris, king of the gods and pharaoh. However, Set, god of chaos and corruption, is the true power behind their misfortunes. Khamaat and Mereyeta must set the gods back on their proper courses, defeat Amun and then Set, and somehow accept that they, too, have become like the gods. The ability to shape the energy of the sun runs in the bloodline and comes out at the point of death when a person refuses to die. For the gods are all too human, and their religion is false. Or is it? What does it mean to become a god, and what does it mean to be human?

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I've been in touch with the writing group I mentioned previously, and supposedly they're meeting this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. However, no one's announced where the meeting place is, so I'm a little concerned. I hope that A) it hasn't fallen apart already and B) I haven't already been uninvited! This is a former graduate creative writing class that was taught by professor and author Kerry Madden last semester. They decided to stay together once the class ended. I spoke with Dr. Madden at the university party about wanting to improve my writing, and she introduced me by email to this group. Now I just hope they actually meet.

I've been daydreaming scenes and plotting again, and I need to rework my outline -- not drastically, but trying to fill in holes and places where I needed more of a framework to go off of. For those who tell me, "Just write," if I do something this big without an outline, I find I spend too much time figuring out where I'm going next. Having a structure really cuts down on hitting my head on the desk in frustration and frees me to get scenes done that are less likely to need removing for tangency.