That Civil War Book
Oct. 11th, 2018 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerYou remember that Civil War book I've been burbling on about for, oh, about two years now? No, not the one about the Confederate raider who stole the pig... only for the pig's owner to steal his heart with her brazen defiance. (Although I should finish that one too. It has a great hook.) The one where the heroine is a Civil War widow who became a nurse and had a nervous breakdown as who would not after seeing that many amputations?, and after the war she meets a doctor who is a war veteran with a limp from a war wound at the Battle of Shiloh.
(SIDE NOTE: did you know that the night after Shiloh, when the wounded men lay in the swampy battlefield and waited for death, their wounds began to give off a phosphorescent gleam? The current theory why this happened is "bioluminescent nematodes." Does this come up in the book? YES OBVIOUSLY. Well not the nematode part, but otherwise.)
Anyway. Harriet Peabody and Dr. Thomas Conroy both think they are Too Damaged for Love, but of course they fall in love with each other. I did not get to include any conversations about Everything Wrong with Andrew Johnson, but maybe I can find an appropriate spot when I'm doing the second draft.
Because! Because! I HAVE THE FIRST DRAFT.
This time I intend to be sensible about starting a new series, and have at least the second book in hand before I rush off to Amazon to publish the first one. The second one is set at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893! So I've been brushing up my World's Fair knowledge, which of course will require reading Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. A Story of the City Beautiful, Frances Hodgson Burnett's World's Fair novel, so I'll start writing...
Well actually, before I start writing anything else, I should finish the revision of The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball. Right now it just hangs over my head every month as the 15th approaches and I need to get the next chapter ready to post to Patreon.
I have to say Patreon and I don't seem like a good fit: people very rarely comment over there (I realize I'm totally spoiled by fanfic comment culture, but there you are). However, I'm committed to posting the rest of this thing, so I suppose I'll finish that up and then regroup, and maybe in the future if I decide to serialize a thing again, it would be better to post it here and have a Kofi link where people could tip or something like that - because that way more people could read it.
(SIDE NOTE: did you know that the night after Shiloh, when the wounded men lay in the swampy battlefield and waited for death, their wounds began to give off a phosphorescent gleam? The current theory why this happened is "bioluminescent nematodes." Does this come up in the book? YES OBVIOUSLY. Well not the nematode part, but otherwise.)
Anyway. Harriet Peabody and Dr. Thomas Conroy both think they are Too Damaged for Love, but of course they fall in love with each other. I did not get to include any conversations about Everything Wrong with Andrew Johnson, but maybe I can find an appropriate spot when I'm doing the second draft.
Because! Because! I HAVE THE FIRST DRAFT.
This time I intend to be sensible about starting a new series, and have at least the second book in hand before I rush off to Amazon to publish the first one. The second one is set at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893! So I've been brushing up my World's Fair knowledge, which of course will require reading Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. A Story of the City Beautiful, Frances Hodgson Burnett's World's Fair novel, so I'll start writing...
Well actually, before I start writing anything else, I should finish the revision of The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball. Right now it just hangs over my head every month as the 15th approaches and I need to get the next chapter ready to post to Patreon.
I have to say Patreon and I don't seem like a good fit: people very rarely comment over there (I realize I'm totally spoiled by fanfic comment culture, but there you are). However, I'm committed to posting the rest of this thing, so I suppose I'll finish that up and then regroup, and maybe in the future if I decide to serialize a thing again, it would be better to post it here and have a Kofi link where people could tip or something like that - because that way more people could read it.
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Date: 2018-10-12 02:00 am (UTC)