Interview - Part 4, FIRE the Hunger

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Part 4 - What is the theme that holds the stories together?

Fire’s personality is the theme. FIRE stays alive by eating, which is the horror of FIRE making it a monster. FIRE is a voracious, selfish, hungry, villain that has no guilt or shame and feasts on everything. FIRE eats oxygen out of the air, which is its very best friend.

FIRE has hypnotic powers to maintain a spell-bound entranced viewer. I witnessed this as a kid watching the hypnotic flames flicker back-and-forth sometimes yellow or orange and maybe green or blue fueled eating FIRE eating its wooden victim. As FIRE reached up into the sky, it popped sparks to escape the trees to satisfy its ravished appetite. Where I live now, FIRE burned the dried ivy from the house next door eager to eat the house and sleeping victims and damaged our shed in the backyard. Years later an enormous FIRE came from smoldering roots in the Public Park up the hill behind our house. The wind blew the smoking embers into flames, which roared down the hill eating houses, pets, and trees. When ashes fall and the smoke gathered around our house, I panicked. I took weird things, like the dogs, chickens, phones, frozen chicken, and all our coats. And, all the photos I had because I worked on my Father’s family tree. That FIRE was drowned by Firemen just two blocks away from our home.

FIRE is a monster and the humans needed to know this and how to control its hunger.

Interview, Part 3 - FIRE, the Hunger

#3 - What do you mean by the premise and how does it work with the plot?

The premise is how the stories are organized to offer the assumption, speculation, belief that is theorized, surmised, assumed to prove or disprove, like a hypothesis of a scientific experiment. These stories are metaphors to demonstrate FIRE has an appetite that goes beyond what humans imagine.
A warning came from god Kaang, "If humans get their hands on FIRE, there will be no harmony only fear and horror among the animals with humans." Then the stories are organized to prove Kaang’s warning starting with the legend of Goddess Pele’s volcanic anger and eruptions to the gods hold ignitable FIRE in their volcanoes to make precious jewelry. The humans desire to own FIRE power which is also fueled by their hypnotic enchantment with FIRE. The animals do seek the warmth and light while also understanding FIRE’s horror. The humans are so beguiled by FIRE a hunter steal FIRE without understanding the risks and costs he carries with FIRE’s hunger.

FIRE, the Hunger.

Interview - Part 2 - FIRE, the Hunger

FIRE, the Hunger

Why did you pick the FIRE stories you picked?

I wasn't sure if there were any stories that talked about the beginnings of FIRE. I knew there were ancient stories about discovering the wheel. So I went the online library and came across about 10 suitable stories. Plus, there were a few about the gods:  Pele and her anger, and Greek and Roman gods, and a few more stories from South America about the gods that protected FIRE in the volcanoes. Some worked and most did not. Then I came across stories from the Native Americans about who spread with fire and there was hummingbird, beaver, spider, and the chimpanzees who help a lost hunter with fire. Then I ran across the bushmen God, Kaang, who warned his people that if the humans had fire there would be no harmony between trees, animals, and the humans. No longer could they speak with each other. That is the premise, the theme for the plot - the dangers of fire and fear in animals. And as a child, when camping we had a FIRE, and it was dangerous hot and tried to escape to eat.

FIRE, the Hunger

Interview - Part 1 - 'FIRE, the Hunger'

FIRE, the Hunger

What made you decide to tell fire stories with the intriguing title ‘FIRE, the Hunger’?

When I was a child, I grew up in Colorado and loved the mountains. My Dad, cut timber up Highway 24 by Woodland Park, which at that time was not a city. My intrigue with Fire started then we kept it in the pit and burned our garbage and everything, tin cans, and shoes. Fire was very feared because it would burn the forests and take my dad’s job of cutting timber for buildings and making telephone poles.

When my Dad retired from that job because lumber was scarce in Colorado, we went camping every summer. I think every weekend. My Dad loved the outside so did my Mom; she was from the small farm in Limon, Colorado.

At camp, at night, my uncles made this big fire in a rock pit. They built the pit making sure no trees and no roots were near. They brought their wood or cut the dry wood for the trees. Cutting fire wood is not allowed today, too many fires burnt too many forests. 
We had a beautiful warm, actually hot, Fire at night with dancing sparks. When I looked into the air, the flames danced in the darkness. We were never allowed to start the fire or to feed it the wood. However, we could to roast hot dogs on long sticks and after wards melt or burn marshmallows.

 After the camp dinner, the men sat around the fire while the women cleaned up the dishes and put away the foods. Like a hunter's camp only in the summer with the kids and women could come. The men fed the fire and talked about their fishing adventures they had during the day. Now and then, they would drop into their hunting adventures. As the kids, we got to listen.

When the fire ate all the wood for that night, it was put out. Either smothered with dirt or drown with water on the glowing embers. The men killed Fire, so as not to have it escape into our camp or the forest. Sometimes the kids killed the fire.

Fire did burn if touched, always entrancing, magically, and ate all we gave and could turn into a monster taking what FIRE wanted eating everything in its path. As happened in our neighborhood about 20 years ago; 3,000 homes burnt. 

Children should know FIRE's charms and dangers.

FIRE, the Hunger

STORY, STORY, and more stories

STORY, STORY, and more stories ...

For the next month through NaNoWriCAMP, their July 2017 camp. I am pledge to write 10,000 words eight stories about FIRE, actually how gods of the ancients knew the humans should not handle fire---> which does escape from a dirt pit eats everything surround it.

My writing progress will be posted with the Clarion Foundation Write-a-Thon for 8 finished stories.  And, stories will be published on my wattpad page called, 'FIRE, the Hunger.'