iPod update
Nov. 2nd, 2003 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7There's a new game on my iPod.
Name That Tune.
That's so cool.
In other news, my novel is progressing well but I'm afraid I'm addicted and it's going to be very hard to go back to work. Novel-writing is worse than heroin. I'd sell my children to be able to sit and write a novel. Nothing can wean me off it, I'm like a fiend.
More specifically, I've ascertained a timeline for my hero's progression through life, and have written up scenes covering a number of pivotal events including his flight from Massachusetts after his wife's death, his enlistment in Cromwell's cavalry, and his participation in the great English Civil War battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. I've also researched both battles briefly, ascertained the precise location of the town where he was born (Bishops Stortford, in Herefordshire, England) and the locations of the towns where he lived most of his life-- Roxbury, MA, and Stonington, CT. I've determined that my main source is inaccurate, since it recounts George's participation in the English Civil war as follows:
He was taken prisoner at Naseby, but escaped, and then fought at Marston Moor and was wounded, and fled to Cork for his recovery.
The flaw?
Naseby was in June and Marston Moor in July, but Naseby was June 1645, and Marston Moor was July 1644. So... I mean, come on people. They were important battles; one broke the Royalists' stranglehold on the North, and the other destroyed the Royalists' last hopes. It's not HARD to find information on them and determine that one happened after the other! So I'm not impressed. I'm going to have to fictionalize-- is the sequence of events correct, or their relationships to the battles? I mean... was he captured, escaped, then wounded and went to Cork, or was he really wounded at Marston Moor and then went to Cork and then was taken prisoner at Naseby? And...
See, the mind boggles. I don't know where to find this information; I'm a shitty researcher. That's why I wanted to do one where the research was done for me.
So, I'm taking comfort in the fact that the whole thing has probably been vastly exaggerated by the family history, and so I'm going to simply fictionalize as I see fit.
I'm also having difficulty with the birthdate of his oldest son. The birthdates aren't given in the genealogy-- only the baptism dates. How fucking annoying is that? I don't give a crap when they were baptized! And it's not something that's regular. George was baptized 2 years after he was born, but some were baptized as very young infants. I just don't know. So... John was born sometime that allowed him to be baptized in June 1646, but my timeline hadn't had his parents married until late 1645. If he's born by the spring, that makes it very annoying for them to be making their trip across the Atlantic at that point... It's a dilemma. Change plot, or change history?
Sigh.
It's an awesome predicament to be in, and I'm enjoying every second. This novel rules.
Name That Tune.
That's so cool.
In other news, my novel is progressing well but I'm afraid I'm addicted and it's going to be very hard to go back to work. Novel-writing is worse than heroin. I'd sell my children to be able to sit and write a novel. Nothing can wean me off it, I'm like a fiend.
More specifically, I've ascertained a timeline for my hero's progression through life, and have written up scenes covering a number of pivotal events including his flight from Massachusetts after his wife's death, his enlistment in Cromwell's cavalry, and his participation in the great English Civil War battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. I've also researched both battles briefly, ascertained the precise location of the town where he was born (Bishops Stortford, in Herefordshire, England) and the locations of the towns where he lived most of his life-- Roxbury, MA, and Stonington, CT. I've determined that my main source is inaccurate, since it recounts George's participation in the English Civil war as follows:
He was taken prisoner at Naseby, but escaped, and then fought at Marston Moor and was wounded, and fled to Cork for his recovery.
The flaw?
Naseby was in June and Marston Moor in July, but Naseby was June 1645, and Marston Moor was July 1644. So... I mean, come on people. They were important battles; one broke the Royalists' stranglehold on the North, and the other destroyed the Royalists' last hopes. It's not HARD to find information on them and determine that one happened after the other! So I'm not impressed. I'm going to have to fictionalize-- is the sequence of events correct, or their relationships to the battles? I mean... was he captured, escaped, then wounded and went to Cork, or was he really wounded at Marston Moor and then went to Cork and then was taken prisoner at Naseby? And...
See, the mind boggles. I don't know where to find this information; I'm a shitty researcher. That's why I wanted to do one where the research was done for me.
So, I'm taking comfort in the fact that the whole thing has probably been vastly exaggerated by the family history, and so I'm going to simply fictionalize as I see fit.
I'm also having difficulty with the birthdate of his oldest son. The birthdates aren't given in the genealogy-- only the baptism dates. How fucking annoying is that? I don't give a crap when they were baptized! And it's not something that's regular. George was baptized 2 years after he was born, but some were baptized as very young infants. I just don't know. So... John was born sometime that allowed him to be baptized in June 1646, but my timeline hadn't had his parents married until late 1645. If he's born by the spring, that makes it very annoying for them to be making their trip across the Atlantic at that point... It's a dilemma. Change plot, or change history?
Sigh.
It's an awesome predicament to be in, and I'm enjoying every second. This novel rules.
