Friends ( Read more... )

I just wrote the wedding night scene. It's awesome. Not because they're having sex all over the place, but because the wedding guests sweep them from the great hall up to the master bedroom, and then the single male guests demand Margarethe's garters, because that's a thing that never actually happened in the middle ages, but I will perpetuate ( Read more... )

I am totally stress eating my way through my last few thousand words with pickles and diet pop. And crudites and Catalina dressing ( Read more... )

So, going over what I wrote today, I have on major observation:

When the hell did I start rewriting Cinderella/Beauty and the Beast?

Summary of events: Margarethe's mother dies when she is very little. Her father remarries to Lady Mairwen* and Mairwen sends her away to a place where she works in the kitchen garden. Her father arranges her ( Read more... )

Which name do you guys prefer as a replacement for Lady Maisry's name? Given that Maisry appears to be from the 18th century and Scottish, I don't want to use it in 13th century Wales ( Read more... )

First things first: koshka_the_cat, I got the taffeta the other day in the mail and it is MAGIC! It's draped on my dummy like a plastron right now, and I cannot wait to finish NaNo and start sewing. (After I make my little cousin's steeple hennin for Christmas, of course!) There will be pictures ( Read more... )

For reasons I'm not sure of, I have just arranged it so my heroine's stepmother started rumors that she is either horribly deformed or a witch while the heroine was locked away tight in the convent. And that is why they sent her away ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, typing up what I wrote on my breaks at work today, and my rough draft is cracking me up ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD.

Second day of NaNo already and I'm going:

What were you thinking, dummy? This is such a dumb idea! You don't know the first thing about medieval knights and ladies and anything. This is going to be a big fat failure of a novel. Just like last year. You're going to get through the first four chapters, then lose momentum. Or you'll ( Read more... )