Riddle games.

Today, while still about three days' ahead of my writing goals, word count-wise, I have written myself into a bit of a corner.  Not an inescapable one, but... now, according to my narrative, it's time for Sir Dinadan to play word-games with the fey.  Probably this means a riddling game, though if anyone can suggest to me other sorts of witty verbal competitions I might broaden the scope a bit.

For that matter, if anyone knows any riddles that haven't been used in famous novels and that would sound plausible in the mouths of fairies and knights from Sub-Roman Britain, that would be fantastic too.  I know the riddle that's going to conclude the contest, but not anything that comes before it.  Hence the corner.

That said, I am greatly enjoying writing Sir Dinadan, and a little disappointed that once he's finished narrating this adventure he will no longer be my perspective character (that will still be Gawain).  I'm still not sure what to call this project.  Is it a long short story?  A novella?  A novel, of which The Knight of the Star is Part I or Book I ?  In that case, do I just title it The Knight of the Star?  I have chapter titles, but they don't suggest to me anything suitable for the whole thing.

I think, sometime soon -- probably after I have my three little short stories or whatever they are finished, detailing adventures of Sir Dinadan, Sir Gaheris, and Sir Palomides -- I need to go back to working on Mutilation of the Hermai, The Hellion Prince, and A Stain Upon His Hands, and let this simmer and be plotted for a while.  It's just that the words are coming so smoothly as easily, and I have a feel for the shape of it -- and, following it, something I should really not call Malcote & Beaumains about Sir Gareth and Sir Breunor's incognito adventures on the way to knighthood, and something after that that needs a better name than The Grail War, and is 'Arthur's Kingdom and the Unseelie Court have a Cold War arms race for the Four Worthy Objects.  Percival is awesome and Galahad, who is a bit of a d-bag, makes more sense as a character and not a symbol than he ever did in anything the author read.'

For that matter, how would I summarize the current project?  Um.  'Sir Gawain must maintain his balance when Arthur's early reign is threatened by Frenchmen, Scots, the Church, and Fairy.  Courtly love is complicated, and absolutely nobody is ever just a damsel in distress.  The author cannot resist the temptation to diverge in many tangents dwelling on the awesomeness of the best ensemble cast in English literature.  Tristan and Lancelot can come too.'

I'm a hopeless nerd, everyone.  Just in case you haven't gotten the memo.

Meditations...

 Anyway, I just cheated and wrote 480 words of another scene, so that I could let the riddle game idea sit awhile and give me time to come up with more decent riddles... and what I wrote makes me want to publicly note a resolution for this story.  Call it a new writing goal, if you will.

Let Guinivere be this awesome and scene-stealing every damn time she appears.