Lobelia the adverbially eclectic

 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?? )

I am going on holiday to Pefkos on the Greek island of Rhodes tomorrow! It is my first solo holiday in all the sixty years of my life on Earth. I've been on hols with others. I've been on research trips and conference trips by myself. But never on an actual beach holiday.

So I have to get All The Assignments done before I fly. Here's my latest assignment, this one from the follow-up course to Dean Wesley's Smith's Writing in Depth course, the Writing Into the Dark course. The brief: 500 words of an opening, no dialogue, no action, a character and a solar eclipse.

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Orig fic. Whoa.

Just when I thought it was getting easier... This week I again wrote two versions. Last week's I found easier. All three texts below the cut.

( Assignment #3 )

( Assignment #4 )

( Assignment #4, version 2 )