I Write Therefore I Spam
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morgynleriTo borrow a title from someone else's tags...
Although my spamming of flists is more once a day than anything else. Continuing on the theme of Henry V and the early fifteenth century for today. I'm currently 6500 words into the story that I didn't necessarily intend to write, but definitely decided it had to be written anyway. On the other hand, screwing with history is fun, and my one lead is proving interesting to work with, and the other is entertaining. The story is also about three years into the first part of the storyline (since we're counting since Henry and the female lead met), and I'm pretty well holding to the timeline I have laid out. Five more years, story wise, until the split into two potential storylines, and I get to figure out which one I really want to do. Though I'm leaning more toward storyline #2 rather than storyline #1.
Which won't make sense without seeing my timeline, but ah well. And either way I go, Henry is still going to die in 1422, so I actually know sorta where I'm going. It's just the details that change from one to the other.
Once I get this story out on paper, though, perhaps I can poke at the next set of stories on my mental list, which would be the alternate history with Henry V not dying in 1422. Stories that may well be shorter, though the set will be longer as a whole, since I'm definitely going through the sixteenth century, and Elizabeth Tudor, with that one. After that, I'll figure it out as I go.
Mm. I'm quite enjoying Henry as a muse, as the above can attest. And am quite glad I think I've gotten through most of the smut on the current story... not all, but that's because there's still four more various offspring to be conceived, and while the scenes aren't entirely graphic, they're definitely explicit. And getting Henry or the female lead to agree to fade-to-black gets me amused looks for the most part. *shrugs* We'll see how it all goes.
Anyway. Back to writing, and seeing how far I get.
Also... anyone care to beta-read the story?
Although my spamming of flists is more once a day than anything else. Continuing on the theme of Henry V and the early fifteenth century for today. I'm currently 6500 words into the story that I didn't necessarily intend to write, but definitely decided it had to be written anyway. On the other hand, screwing with history is fun, and my one lead is proving interesting to work with, and the other is entertaining. The story is also about three years into the first part of the storyline (since we're counting since Henry and the female lead met), and I'm pretty well holding to the timeline I have laid out. Five more years, story wise, until the split into two potential storylines, and I get to figure out which one I really want to do. Though I'm leaning more toward storyline #2 rather than storyline #1.
Which won't make sense without seeing my timeline, but ah well. And either way I go, Henry is still going to die in 1422, so I actually know sorta where I'm going. It's just the details that change from one to the other.
Once I get this story out on paper, though, perhaps I can poke at the next set of stories on my mental list, which would be the alternate history with Henry V not dying in 1422. Stories that may well be shorter, though the set will be longer as a whole, since I'm definitely going through the sixteenth century, and Elizabeth Tudor, with that one. After that, I'll figure it out as I go.
Mm. I'm quite enjoying Henry as a muse, as the above can attest. And am quite glad I think I've gotten through most of the smut on the current story... not all, but that's because there's still four more various offspring to be conceived, and while the scenes aren't entirely graphic, they're definitely explicit. And getting Henry or the female lead to agree to fade-to-black gets me amused looks for the most part. *shrugs* We'll see how it all goes.
Anyway. Back to writing, and seeing how far I get.
Also... anyone care to beta-read the story?
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:45 pm (UTC)Thinking up alternate histories for the Tudor period is always tricky; there's Henry VIII and the split from Rome, for a start, and English history without Elizabeth is kind of unthinkable, and since she's descended from Catherine... I angsted quite a bit about that. For my part I went to a school founded by Edward VI so I can't mess about with my own history too much or I would vanish! Also there is the problem of all those people called Edward and Richard when you get to the end of the Plantagenets. But considering what Shakespeare did, you have a pretty free hand when it comes to history. And then there's Anouilh and what he did with Henry II's story... a fine tradition.
Will be happy to beta this, though I may have to skip over the het scenes. Let me know what level of beta-ing you would like.
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Date: 2010-10-18 11:21 pm (UTC)As for the AU which involves the teenage Henry... I'm not even trying to think past the end of what I have plotted out, because I have the last scene for the story already. And plan to work on the Henry V stories for the living!Henry-verse after I get this one done. Or the Henry muse will likely be grumpy.
Level of beta'ing... language, consistency, characterization, anachronisms that are glaring? I'm not too worried about my over-all level of historical accuracy, as I'm mixing Shakespeare into it as well as real history and a goodly dose of imagination and a hint of fairy tale. No fuss about skipping over the sex-scenes, though they do have an effect on forwarding the plot (and defining some characterization of both Henry and the female lead, as well as the relationship between them).
I can email it, or upload to Google Docs, whichever makes things easier. And my email is morgynleri@gmail.com.
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