User blog comment:TheReturnOfTheKing/A new world 3/@comment-4844180-20141107231227/@comment-5870856-20141108004629

Don't apologize for rambling. That's how this blog was written in the first place :)

As for your ideas, they're very good, and I may end up using them. Thing about the sand is, most sand on Earth is made of quartz grains, hence why sandstone forms quartzite. I have absolutely no idea what other materials would form from non-quartz based sands, so I'm going the lazy route and saying the sand here is made from quartz.

On the other hand, a variety of different types of sand sounds cool, so maybe I could just say that's what happens and handwave the resultant different properties. Research is a possibility, of course…

The gelatinous blobs and skewering plants sound neat, as well as these tower builders. I think I'll use them (I'll give you credit, of course), but for other forms or life, I was hoping for something a bit closer to home. Call me terracentric, but I'd rather write about herds of photosynthesizing plant/animal symbiotes travelling between oases than… well, giant whale-blobs :P