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:thumb104235037:whew, it HAS been a while since i've been on here updating.
i can't figure out how to get anywhere!
so what has been going on in my world? well tonight i am working on the value of a British pound in 1800 and it's comparison to today. what would a pound buy? how many shillings in a pound, how many pence (pennies) in a shilling and so on. did i mention i HATE math?
why am i contemplating the value of the British pound? am i planning a trip and got all historical (no but that is likely to happen should i ever get to Ireland or Scotland)? i am working on an original fiction. my first manuscript.
i figured since i enjoy reading historical romance and i love actually being able to look the facts up and finding out how they have been manipulated into the story, i should suck it up and give it a shot. my senior seminar in fiction writing teacher always pushed me to write crime dramas. i majored in psychology as well as writing and did a lot of internships and work in forensics. he thought it would be a perfect fit. well, one fine spring day the assignment popped up to write outside your "comfort zone". pick a totally different genre and focus on it. he also lamented that his students "feared intimacy". they wouldn't put sex into stories (probably because this stuff was for a grade) and how can you know if it fits, if it's realistic, if you don't get critique on it?
so little old me decided to write a romance. it wasn't a historical (i wasn't reading
much romance at the time, let alone historical) but it was a modern love story. and i thought my teacher would hit the floor. his words to me were along the lines of "Oh, my God. I have a romance author in my class. I have never had a romance author." of all things, that became my niche. when i progressed to reading what most would classify as "cheesy romance novels" i fell in love. that was what i wanted to do. there is an author in st marys that writes for harlequin (i actually knew her. she's friends with an old girl friend's mom) but she won't tell me her pen name. cheater.so i'm struggling to learn about the culture of England in the turn of the 19th century.
my inuyasha fan fics? those are still coming along. in fact, i have one up on my screen right now! unfortunately that one will not be found on dA, but it will mention when it's up and running.
sigh. i should have paid more attention in history.
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Merry Christmas to ALL! :Rudolph:
but it's still at freezing so there is just a layer of water over the ice. fun!
cookies are baked, the house is ready (sort of. the kittens decided to help with the wrapping. that was just messy) and we have a christmas day movie ready to watch (Prince Caspian).