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nano win yay!
Nov. 21st, 2025 06:43 pmI passed the 50k mark! 51,840 words so far!
regency schmegency
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:58 amToday I wrote over 2000 words of nano novel before breakfast. Once the pivot has pivoted, the words just flow. Apparently.
Have discovered two good regency moving image inspos: Northanger Abbey (the 2007 version with actually a very sweet and believable Catherine and Henry Tilney) and the Mira Nair-directed Vanity Fair (with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp- how had I not known this existed??).
I had already watched All The Bridgerton and rewatched bits of the BBC Pride and Prejudice (iconic Firth arising from the waters).
I have earmarked Hornblower and Sharpe.
Have discovered two good regency moving image inspos: Northanger Abbey (the 2007 version with actually a very sweet and believable Catherine and Henry Tilney) and the Mira Nair-directed Vanity Fair (with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp- how had I not known this existed??).
I had already watched All The Bridgerton and rewatched bits of the BBC Pride and Prejudice (iconic Firth arising from the waters).
I have earmarked Hornblower and Sharpe.
Today I wrote 6,157 words! I am not on track; I am over track. And I have finally cracked it. ( Read more... )
Because regency is not about the regency (the actual historical period). It is about a fanon. With the historical period being the canon.
Total written in November: 35,166 words. Pivot happened at: 22,249 words. Note to future: it apparently takes me that many words to discover my stride.
I shall now walk the cavapoochon and then watch Northanger Abbey (2007) for some more regency fanon.
Because regency is not about the regency (the actual historical period). It is about a fanon. With the historical period being the canon.
Total written in November: 35,166 words. Pivot happened at: 22,249 words. Note to future: it apparently takes me that many words to discover my stride.
I shall now walk the cavapoochon and then watch Northanger Abbey (2007) for some more regency fanon.
Origfic: Regency romance set in Germany
Sep. 14th, 2025 01:21 pm So I have decided to write a regency romance set in Germany for this year's nanowrimo. Or, because nano is defunct, what I like to call canowrimo (Cambridge novel writing month, and also 'I can!) because my local nano chapter is going as strong as ever, with people turning up practically every Saturday to do some write-inning.
Anyway, yesterday at the write-in I dug around in my files and found a story I started in April 2023. I'd been struggling with setting something in the Napoleonic era after an epic (and epic fail) co-writing a Battle of La Haye Sainte nano and other attempts to insert m/m into the Franzosenzeit / Restauration / vor-Vormärz (there's not a handy moniker for this as there is for the British regency of George, Prince of Wales).
Here's the start of what I wrote during Camp Nano in April 2023:
( Pairing: Tullius De Vries / Charles Fotherington -- or is it?? )
Anyway, yesterday at the write-in I dug around in my files and found a story I started in April 2023. I'd been struggling with setting something in the Napoleonic era after an epic (and epic fail) co-writing a Battle of La Haye Sainte nano and other attempts to insert m/m into the Franzosenzeit / Restauration / vor-Vormärz (there's not a handy moniker for this as there is for the British regency of George, Prince of Wales).
Here's the start of what I wrote during Camp Nano in April 2023:
( Pairing: Tullius De Vries / Charles Fotherington -- or is it?? )
