Rebooting my LJ
I'm not writing Science Fiction right now.
I've been having trouble with it for quite a while, but I'm stubborn, and kept at it. Now I'm finally going back to the project I was working on last year and -- amazingly enough -- it's going quite smoothly. Must be a sign.
Since I used to be a professional historian, I suppose my interest in historical novels isn't too surprising. And that's what this is. Although it's not what you'd have expected from my -- my grad degree is in medieval history (my master's thesis was on the terribly exciting topic of terminology in Italian legal courts in the 7th and 8th centuries -- which even makes me yawn). But between grad school and a long tenure in the SCA which is now over with, I'm pretty burned out on the Middle Ages.
"Circles" is the name of this novel. I feel I can call it that officially now because 1) I like the name, and 2) It's gone beyond the stage of just playing around with the idea. It takes place in Germany during WWII and tells the story of a family who stands up to be counted in the face of the Nazis.
I really need to get in the habit of not referring to them as Nazis, but rather as National Socialists, or NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) because no one in Germany referred to them as Nazis.
I've got a lot more research to do, and plotting as well, but I'm planning to be at a point where I can start on the manuscript itself by the end of July. I'll still have research to do, but by then I should be at a stage where not knowing something won't stop me cold. But that means I've got a lot of work to do between now and then. But I've got this weekend all to myself (my wife is giving me that because I had to work on Father's day), and I've got the week after next off from the day job. So I'll have time to focus on it exclusively.
More on it later. I'm going to try and update my LJ on a regular basis, possibly even every day, but we'll see. Haven't touched it for more than a year, so it's a crap shoot.
With a little luck, the come-out roll will be a 7 or 11.