Reading, Writing, Pondering: Big Life Themes, Literature, Contemporary/Historical Issues |
Intending to blog daily this month. Now that MarNoWriMo finished (March Novel Writing Month) and April Script Frenzy, now that I am STILL planning, cogitating, researching, and outlining my The Civil War Series, inspired by characters from the April Stage Play written for Script Frenzy, I ought to have time to blog daily. Yes? Who am I kidding? It was the Stage Play that exhausted me; in March, I wrote upwards of 2500 words a day, finishing a novel I began Dec. 9, writing its sequel March 1-22, and writing 20 chapters of a third in that series March 23-31. But at any rate, I intend to blog daily from now on-partially to keep up with the principle of
In addition to doing research for The Civil War Series, which now seems to be going for four volumes rather than three, I have been reading: Anne Bishop- Pillars of the World/Tir Alain Trilogy Book One Sebastian-Ephemera Book One The Black Jewels Trilogy Laurie R. King- The Language of Bees (2009 entry in her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes Series) upcoming: Anne Bishop- House of Galann /Tir Alain Book Three Belladonna/Ephemera Book Two and many, many books on The American Civil War, the antebellum years (Abolition and Slavery) and Reconstruction. For those who would like to read the Stage Play that started this series, here is the bitem link:
Please do remember this is the original, unedited, untouched version. Here is the current proposed Civil War Series: THE CIVIL WAR SERIES BOOK ONE: REMEMBRANCE AT MORNING 1854-end of 1859 (Debutante Ball)
BOOK TWO: BEFORE NIGHTFALL January 1859-November 1863 BOOK THREE: ? ? ? ? ? ? JANUARY 1864 (Cornerstone, Confederate Armory, Macon)-NOVEMBER 1869 (Crossburning, Death of Harrald Nealm) BOOK FOUR: THE LAST ACT FEBRUARY 1870-? (RECONSTRUCTION) |