NaNoBlog 2002
30 days.
50,000 words.
No sweat.
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Thursday, October 24, 2002
So I saw this keychain in a catalog tonight that has a wolf on the front, and engraved on the back is: "Wolf...Teacher. Pathfinder. Moon Dog of my soul. Howling, Singing, Teaching how to know." I'm sorry, but that completely cracked me up. Moon Dog of my soul?!!? Teaching how to know? That started me thinking, though... I already had this idea of changing my character's name to Lydia Montag instead of Lydia Wolfley, because "Montag" is German for Monday and I liked the title Chasing Monday for no discernable reason. But Montag also sounds kind of like "Moon Dog"... So now I'm wondering if there is any way to somehow combine all my ideas! Not sure how, yet. Like...maybe someone once misunderstood her name "Montag" as "Moondog," and that made her think of wolves...who knows? I guess I still have a little time to think about it. There's also a Prefab Sprout song called Moondog, though I have no idea what it's supposed to be about (okay, I just researched this on the Net, and it turns out it's about Elvis having relocated to the moon...). Google also came up with 32,900 matches for the single word "moondog" (yikes!) and 5,920 for the phrase "moon dog." (Odd...I wonder why it's combined so often.) Maybe I should even call the novel Chasing Moondog or just Moondog... Hopefully my subconscious brain will figure all this stuff out and see if there's something I can do with it! (But even if I stick with Wolfley all the way, I've got to mention the term "moondog" in the novel!)
Okay, now I did a search on "moon dog of my soul" and found 26 links that reference that quotation! Lots of wolf sites use it. Looks like it's from a book called, Medicine Cards, The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, by Jamie Sams & David Carson, though I'm not sure if the authors actually wrote the quotation or just quoted it themselves. But I still think it's a bit over the top! (Heck, I didn't even souls could have moon dogs. I think my soul is more likely to have a moon cow than a moon dog...you know, the cow that jumped over the moon.) posted by Alison | 10:06 PM
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