no na no ~

[lookingland]

just me blithering here ~ i keep saying i am not NaNoing, and yet i filled out my profile over there and i am writing (a wee over 4k this morn), so i am not sure how long this denial will continue. i picked as the subject, what ought to be a novella called After Shiloh, which is one of those stories that's not really critical in the scheme of all things (or maybe it is, who knows anymore), but i thought it would be interesting to tell. i also think it will give me an opportunity to explores certain aspects of James's personality that i tend to forget about ~ particularly regarding his post-operative mood swings.

there's also a ton of detail work i have never really figgered out on this one, like what's James doing at Shiloh in the first place? dunno if i can answer that, but this exercise will give me a chance to explore.



beautiful image of the cemetery at the Shiloh battlefield
from the gallery of Richard
congrats on the kick-off to all of you who are actually Nano-ing!

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[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i actually know very little about this battle (pittsburgh landing is where i want to focus my energy). shiloh is one of those battles i have not done hardly any research on, which was part of why i wanted to choose it ~ to get me motivated to find out what the deal is.

i'm very curious now about what you said ~ i will definitely look into more recent scholarship on the events! thank you!

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