Wandlore
I have not made an entry here for a long while because I have set aside Emily Glass while I finished my “non-fiction” book on wandlore. Revising this book is still helpful, both for the revision practice, and the publishing practice, so one cannot quite say it is irrelevant to E.G. However, it is taking way too long and I miss Emily.
So, have at it! I’m going to finish this ms. and get it off to the editor. Deadline? Let’s say next Monday!
Meanwhile, I have found another distraction and that is an invitation to apply to teach at the Grey School of Wizardry. GSW was founded the year before I founded Avalon Center, but its administrative team was much stronger than ours and its appeal to kids gives it a bigger clientele. Costs much less too. I don’t think there is much money in the job, but it might be worth it if I did not spend too much time on it.
The funny thing is that reviewing GSW’s class lists, I find it hard to think of what classes I might offer. There is no curriculum, apparently. At ACD, I had worked out most of the courses that I thought would be necessary to a complete druidic education, but most of those courses seem to be there at GSW. I am put off a little my the way the catalog is organized. The symbolism of colors is different from my experience and within those “departments” some of the courses seem a bit incongruous. For example languages and literature are stuck in with magical practice. Besides the magical practice department there is a dept. of wizardry. I’m not seeing the difference in those categories. Moreover, in the Alchemy and Magical Science department there seem to be a lot of courses on how to use computers and the internet. Likewise, in the cosmology department, classes are mostly in astronomy, which is the mundane modern use of the word “cosmology” but hardly is helpful for students of magic.
Most startling of all, however, was my personal befuddlement in how to teach 12 year olds, the main clientele, apparently. Here I am, writing a book about a magical school teaching 12-year-olds and I think I can’t actually do it in the here and now? Hmmm. If I did do it, the experience might be very useful for my fiction.
I just have to prevent it from taking up time from my writing.
