DONE!

[julian_griffith]

Project: Christmas Story That Needs A Title
Market: Storm Moon Press, "22 Days of Yule" open anthology call
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Required length:15-20K
Final wordcount: 16,510

I didn't even post yesterday, though I wrote about a thousand words, because I was so disgusted with myself for falling into the Google Vortex. I spent most of the morning

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[eglantine_br]

Got your email with the thing. Have not read it yet. Waiting for quiet. Probably tomorrow.

But now I have the image of Caroline and Thorne singing 'Free to be, you and me,' while Rockingham rides around on his horse!

I love Mary W. She and her friends were really trying to invent a new and better world. Had they gotten it going we would all have had less misery since, I think.

[julian_griffith]

Better yet, Mary Wollstonecraft was married to a William Godwin.

I made him a black-sheep relative of Alexander's. :D

[eglantine_br]

I am dorktastic!

I have downloaded 1559 Common prayer onto my Kindle so I know just what little boy Marlowe and Kyd listened to every week at stater mandated services. They had latin at school of course, (In fact they were only allowed to speak in Latin or Greek at school.) But I think they were really exposed to some gorgeous use of English, while they were fidgeting and in church.

[julian_griffith]

I think I've got 1662 on my Kindle because that's what I used for the wedding ceremony, even though the only line I directly referenced was "with my body, I thee worship," and also baby Stephen's christening. But I had to go back to 1559 for this one. Not that it wound up mattering.

Did you know that Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane used the 1662 version, even though the 1928 revision had happened, and Lord Peter's sister Helen thought the 1662 with all its references to the getting of children was vulgar? <3

[eglantine_br]

I had forgotten that, I just remember that Harriet chose to promise to 'obey'! (I think it was a sort of joke.)

[julian_griffith]

I need to re-read all of them, seriously. Except for Five Red Herrings. There's only so much phonetically written dialect I can take.

[jestana]

HOORAY! *throws confetti* So glad for you! There's a wonderful feeling of satisfaction that comes with finishing a story. :) Bravo!

[lunasariel]

YAAAAAAYYY! Congratulations on done-ness! And, wow, I salute your dedication to historical accuracy/attention to detail. *salutes*

Also, sugary treats in general, and bottles of Mexican real-sugar Coke in particular, are the best rewards for accomplishing one's goals *ever*. Just, you know, in case there was any doubt.

[julian_griffith]

Well, there's also booze. :)

It is a quirk of my brain that I can't pick out WHICH detail I want to write about to give a good impression of the whole picture unless I KNOW the whole picture, down to details I'm NOT writing about. Therefore, stonkering amounts of research, which is a lot of time not writing DOWN any words. Plus I wind up making seating charts, and floor plans, and other things that don't necessarily show.