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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Comments

[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not NaNoing this year, either. It's my first year in graduate school, I need the time for my papers and to sort out my thesis to take me into the PhD programs, you know? I need November to sort me out. NaNo can wait.

Are you familiar with some of the theories that suggest the way Shiloh is currently understood is incorrect due to the on-the-ground evidence of how the battle happened? I ran across this in "Confederates in the Attic", and I should check into it more, but the rangers at Shiloh and some Shiloh historians have been challenging the traditional map of the battle for a few years now.

[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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