Picowrimo - Day 1

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

At twenty past midnight local time!

Greetings all. You know what to do. You know where to do it. Go! :)

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

I got some editing done today on the later chapters of Searching for Julia, and hopefully I'll manage to go over the final two tomorrow so as to give myself a clear run at writing a synopsis this weekend. Have a non-spoilery paragraph from today's edits:

Lifting the papers out as a block, she took them over to the big desk in case she needed to spread them out. The first sheet was a letter to Lionel from an acquaintance who obviously considered himself a history buff, or whatever the Victorian equivalent might have been. He wrote that the evidence regarding Lionel's ancestor – which one, Linda wondered – was unproven at best, but pointed to Charles de Peverel having been acquainted at the very least with Sir John Hawkwood. Certainly de Peverel might have fought at Crécy. There was no reason to suppose that he hadn't conveyed the message that allowed the Black Prince a degree of success at Carcasonne, even though the English forces had never overthrown the citadel itself. Equally however, there was no evidence that he had ever been a part of that campaign. The whole story was a charming family legend, and if Lionel thought there was scope for a painting, or a series of paintings, depicting his ancestor then the enclosed might be of interest.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

I enjoy the crossover between the writing, the interpretation of the writing and the visual art it seems to have inspired.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Oh very intriguing, all those generations back - with the mention of Crecy you now have me thinking of Agincourt and Kenneth Branagh carrying off bodies to the tune of Non nobis Domine, Domine...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I have a lot of history worked out for the family.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

This sort of historical sleuthing always makes for a good story.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have enough history for the family to weave an entire saga around them.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the editing!

Very interesting scene (although I don't know your story, so am not sure what is going on) - I like the deconstruction in the letter

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is from a quiet section leading up to the grand finale.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yay, Julia is back! I stillh aven't given up on readign the whole story one day.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I'll get it out there for you to read one day.