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PiP
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Gotta support Homer and the gang.
I saw your face on your .com profile, and I think you have some pretty awesome eyes. I remember them shining.
Oh dear does this sound like I am leaning a way I am not actually leaning.
You're good. And thanks.
I love all history. But by coincidence my favorite areas are... Ancient Rome, and WWII. I have big soft spots for Ancient Greece, Egypt and Sumer too.
Nearly all my writing is set in WWII.
I am currently working on a novel set in Greece during WWII, and the subsequent Greek Civil war (1941 - 1950)
Republic or empire??
I prefer Empire, just because as a kid my first ever "chapter book" was Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth. I was hooked from that moment on.
Counterpoint
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This is fun! I was a piano major for a few years in college. Counterpoint is the art of combining multiple independent melodic lines that sound harmonious when played together.
My image is of a Montblanc fountain pen nib. I write first drafts on paper with a fountain pen (often a Montblanc Classique) to avoid what I call the "tyranny of the delete key." I’ve uncovered through the evolution of my process that the path to better writing leads through deliberate inefficiency. Internalizing the idea that you can’t easily modify what you’ve written prompts deeper consideration before writing. This mental “pre-writing” results in more deliberate sentence construction and a stronger logical link between sentences. After all, clear writing only results from clear thinking.
My image is of a Montblanc fountain pen nib. I write first drafts on paper with a fountain pen (often a Montblanc Classique) to avoid what I call the "tyranny of the delete key." I’ve uncovered through the evolution of my process that the path to better writing leads through deliberate inefficiency. Internalizing the idea that you can’t easily modify what you’ve written prompts deeper consideration before writing. This mental “pre-writing” results in more deliberate sentence construction and a stronger logical link between sentences. After all, clear writing only results from clear thinking.
My avatar is a composite of four images. The Cassini spacecraft and Saturn's rings are from NASA's gallery, the eye is mine, and if you look really closely you'll see a Python listing on my iris.
Please look closely. There's a bug in that code. Let me know if you find it.
Fascination with Poe inspired my nom de plume.
Please look closely. There's a bug in that code. Let me know if you find it.
Fascination with Poe inspired my nom de plume.
Nice. My area of special interest is the Roman Republic, although I wrote a novel set in ancient Babylon too.
My current WIP is set at the opposite end of the scale ... Iceland, 1,000 AD. And it's doing my head in.
Nice.
Most of my work is set 1935 - 1965.
I have a parked novel set partly at the start of the second intermediate period in Egypt.
i often have several WIP, but one set in Greece 1941 -1950 is dominating everything at the moment.
Ack! The rise and rule of the Hyksos in the north of Egypt, right?
I don't know much about the second intermediate period, but I know that much.I chose 1,000 AD in Iceland because it was such an interesting time.
Leif Erikson was off doing his thing, but back home, Christianity was making headway, and the old Norse religion was dying.So it seemed like a good time for a zombie (sorry, draugr) apocalypse ...
(And no, my novel has nothing to do with Skyrim. Why do you ask?)
Ack! The rise and rule of the Hyksos in the north of Egypt, right?
Partly I picked that period because almost nothing is known about it. That way I can have people and events and no one can ever say convincingly "that did not happen then."
Does seem like a good time. After your time, but maybe that is why the Norse settlement in Greenland was abandoned!
Very interesting and you are right. If I ever get the patience for it I will try to do the same.
Funny you should say that. That's exactly why I picked some of my time periods (e.g. 2nd-century BC Sardinia, 6th-century BC Babylon, 1st-century AD Rome etc.)
Of course we know lots about Rome in the 1st century, but I just created new characters to fit the story. (My Rome story is all about the creation of a new traffic-control division for Rome's primitive police force.
There's a love story attached, as well as a whodunnit, but the traffic-control idea is the germ of the story).
A traffic division in the town watch! That has me chuckling.Funny you should say that. That's exactly why I picked some of my time periods (e.g. 2nd-century BC Sardinia, 6th-century BC Babylon, 1st-century AD Rome etc.)
Of course we know lots about Rome in the 1st century, but I just created new characters to fit the story. (My Rome story is all about the creation of a new traffic-control division for Rome's primitive police force.
I mostly write material set in WWII, but I manage the history by having my characters be very small cogs in vast machine.
I won one of the monthly competitions on the old forum with a story set in WW1. Although I know WW2 quite well, I don't really write WW2 fiction, it's too overdone, IMO.
Cool on the win.
I see war as a place to give characters extreme experiences. A setting to explore human behavior, rather than being about the war.
And I tend to pick anything other than run of the mill characters and circumstances. Like a Soviet woman combat medic, or a Ukrainian partisan having to decide whether to fight the Nazis or the Soviets.
My current WIP focuses on Greek Resistance and the way the British betrayed them in 1944 in favor of collaborators.
So I give myself a pass to explore the "overdone."
