What's In A Name

New medicine side effects have made me lose energy but I think I finally have them figured out. Been putting my new stuff through it's paces. Got the first Witcher for free through a promotion and some other free games to start things off. However, I need to keep my dazzled preoccupations in check and fully write, as I promised to Donna.

The issue with Restful Sleep is I ran into file transfer issues in the Cloud because folders be weird. I might just wind up copying all my critical stuff to the cloud. There are several, interconnected clouds but my best resource is constant email backups. This is what is commonly known as a "delayus reasonalis" or a reason I give for procrastinating something I ought not to.

I really want to write but I run smack dab into the worst of writer phobias "I AM GOING TO FUCK THIS UP" and it's not even something where I can tell myself "naww...it's okay, just write". It is literally like "I forgot everything, I don't have my themes in my head or my setting or anything".

I am, good and ill, a method writer. I need to be right there or else I forget the style which I am using and that goes from the line choices to the background characters. Often this occurs right around transformations because I gotta change everything so it gets a bit stressful.

How do I destress? Oddly enough by returning to Abby stuff. Lived in universes are cramped but comforting. I wrote the opening to Abby 6 from pure memory. I have been living this stuff for years. I know some streets of Alashir (btw, "Alah-sure" is my personal pronunciation) better than some around where I grew up.

And so, Abby is finally the point I want to bring up in this piece. Names.

Trimountaine was taken from the original name for Boston. Then Alashir came from my ass. But other than that, names in Abby have either been connected to things or they come back around after a while.

Which brings me to an upcoming quandary.

What the crap was the Creator Homeworld called?

There's a few issues inherent. It was around in an iteration before Abby as we know her. And it would have a name.

As I've alluded to, we're gonna meet some surviving Creators to cap off this finale. Abby's fellow Gallifreyans, in the Doctor Who sense.

But I don't have a Gallifrey by name.

Lazy version - just call the Creator World "an Earth" because parallel universes and the tidally-locked world where they hide around a dim, brown dwarf the Refuge or the Twilight Zo....Place.

But I don't want to be lazy if I can help it. I already have a few reused names in the mix. Parallel universes.

And yes, I considered calling the creator world Alashir and then vetoed it because it wouldn't take Iao years to find it and he would comment on the name (although he is the kind of creature which wouldn't give a shit with his ego). While I have a cause for a lot of stuff Eraser's should connect and comprehend (they are very different in their perceptions, they smell energy)....like "oh, a baby was taken by one of our own from a place called Alashir, SEARCH THEM ALL FOR HER!" That said, it wouldn't be terribly intuitive to just search all the places with the same name. If a child is kidnapped from Springfield, Oregon do you consider looking in Springfield, Missouri for them?

You follow the leads left behind and, for an Eraser, that is the light/burning, aroma of a Creator.

Still, I really want to make at least one name. So the survivors can be like "Man, I wish Farblegook was still around. It was gorgeous with the rivers of Lazlebrok and Tarmarok." You risk using too many names though but giving a name or two makes it more realistic for the people who lived there and remember it fondly after two decades in exile.

Whether the place they are hiding should get a name is debatable but there needs to be at least one that means "home" to a group of beings.