Hullo Steve!

I like the site design, it is very shiny.

Yeah, I can only claim picking it out of a few someone set up as possibilities.

BUT

I believe the colors are customizable, stay tuned as I might change some of the color scheme.

Please advise if changes I make promote shininess or if the alterations cause a diminishment of aforementioned shiny as shiny is our goal here at LStephenOneill.

Steve

PS. Note to self: make sure that the goal of shininess is stated somewhere in the pages of this… …uh… …website.

PPS. Additional note to self: Find out if “shininess” is how you spell shininess or if I’m going to have to work toward some other goal if indeed shininess is a word but doesn’t mean the quality or degree to which a thing is shiny. OR fix the spelling.

Very proud of you, hon! Keep up the good work.

Love you!
Wendy

Have you ever seen the film “Into the West”? It’s a great family movie about Irish children in search of Tir Na Nau. Sounds like it might be right up your alley.

Dear Louise,

I think “Into the West” sounds very interesting. I’ll have to see if I can find it at my local video store. Thanks for the recommendation.

As to seeking Tir na Nog, it is the Irish land of eternal youth. There are legends, notably of Osian who followed a deer, really a fae woman, and lived there with her for years. He went back to the regular world to see his father (Finn MacCumhail) and his son (Oscar), but they were long dead. Time moves differently in the land of eternal youth. He was warned not to touch the ground, but to help an old woman (I think) he got off his horse and instantly turned into an old man.

Not sure what all that has to do with what you mentioned, but if the children in “Into the West” are seeking Tir Na Nua, I should see it. I thought I was being quite original with my Irish dictionary: Tir Na (Land of) Nua (New).

Thanks for stopping by my little pages.

LSO

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Hi! Nice entry, very interesting to read. Yes, I love legends, they are wonderful stories indeed. Thanks for your post.

Dear Max,

I hope then, that you have a look through my pages. I’m taking names, stories, ideas, from the past and setting them in another world. I suspect that many Angus(es), and Niall(s), and Cu(es), and Finn(es) contributed to the tales we now have. I may make a break from those older legends in my new (Nua) mythos but I intend for the spirit to be the same.

In the meantime I’ve started a couple of new legends on my own. Have a look at Anuniaq and the Deer Riders.

Tell me what you think.

LSO

The story lives on as it is told form teller to teller. As it lives it grows old and changes and takes a turn here and there. The main theme remains or rather evolves as each telling adds to and forgets a bit here and there.

It does and it does. On these pages those stories leap into another world. A place that has never been, but could be.

Often one of the changes that happens is that names change. Stories from long long ago are told of someone nearer adding to that legend the bones of the old. Sometimes though, old names resurface, and new tales echo the old.

LSO

into the west? is that like into the wild?

Dear Paul,

Yes and No. If I understand what happened to the young man who went “into the wild”, I believe he ate something toxic and died. In that sense, yes, as some Celts imagined their heaven, or Tir na Nog (The land of youth for the Irish), as being in the West.

The term and that idea was used by JRR Tolkien in his Lord of the Rings. The Elves, leaving middle earth, departed Grey Havens for the West. Going into the West, sybolically, is associated with death. That is an association that I was making, something that is generally referenced in one sense, but which I have changed into something else.

As an American, West has had association with newness, not necessarily wildness but certainly freedom, This new land is pre-wild, there is nothing, perhaps American settlers saw the West that way too, that there was nothing until they built.

In both the former and the later senses the West, because it is the reward at the end of life, or because it is new and offers hope, especially as it has been idealized as a paradise, there are positive association and in that sense I think no.

Does that help?

LSO

Putting poetry or the poetic approach aside for awhile, let’s discuss word count; when is a short-story too long to still be a short? Is there an official point where a short becomes a novella, another where a novella becomes a novel? Is Hemingway’s The Old Man & the Sea (very short) truly a novel?

Thanks for sharing this story,
How can I download more stories written by you?

Tis easily done. Meerly click on the various offerings to the left and enjoy. No muss, no fuss.

LSO

Great post. I really enjoyed every part of it. Its a very informative. Thanks!!

Okay, I know this is a Spam post, but I think this is an opportunity to point out that this post is NOT good, it is bad. I need to fix this post. Actually I’ve already rewritten it a bit, but I left it on the wrong drive where I can’t get to it. Hopefully I can fix this soonish.

Sincerely,

LSO

Hopefully I’ve improved things.

I’m still working on graphics, or rather not working on them, but wishing I had them and intending to have them later.

Your input is desired and highly valued.

LSO

I too want to create my own fictional stories. However I have some troubles on how to start. I’ve been finding ways or hints on how to start my story. Your post is a great help. Upon reading it, ideas are popping into my mind on how to start my own story. This is great! Looking forward for your next post.

You don’t have to make a world to start a story. I tend to do things the hard way. I’m having much more trouble ending storys. Beware. Once you get started it is hard to stop.

LSO

Again, really well done! Exceptional! Thanks.