Ok so I need Henry Carey a possible iligitamet of King Henry to be in Gloucestershire when his mothers estate is in Essex – my plan? Well it turns out his aunt Anne Boleyn sent him to a Cistercian monastery – I can’t find where this is but have decided it will be around here […]
From my research I found that Mary Boleyn did indeed have an affair with King Henry and that some historians think that her two eldest may have been his – unlike the film though she had a daughter first called Catherine. Then she had Henry (called Henry interestingly enough!) and around the time he was […]
As part of my research I am watching films/dramas and documentaries from the Elizabethan time period – which is nescassary as my main character is Queen Elizabeth the First – but what I also need is back ground on the Tudor period of history completely as obviously the desception of the Punk occures when Elizabeth […]
For the Questions on there own go here! And don’t forget to post a link as a comment on the originators blog here! When and how did you find out about NaNoWriMo? How did you go? I found out about NaNoWriMo the year before last – so that would be 2007 but as we were […]
I have had some people saying I am making my life unnessasarily complicated by worrying about the history of the elves and the like – but I was a coherant, consistant world for my protagonist to inhabit. I also want to thread the story around real events both historical and geological and climatological – these […]
Sometimes I find I need a mental crutch to get me through things like exams so I tend to have a mascot or lucky type thing with me – even doing a geology degree I did silly things like taking minerals in that are supposed to have certain helpful properties like wisdom and carming influences […]
Keeping track of characters can be tricky so I plan to draw flow diagrams / charts / mind maps – you know the type of thing that shows the relationship of each character to the main protagonist and to each other. I also plan to keep a wiki so there will be character entires in […]
The Punks mock leather trousers creacked their irridescant pink surface rinkeled and smugged with exhust from her out modded Luniaire 6 the bike of the heavens. She swerved again as the torc connon beared down on her, its surface a mirrored sheen rippling her reflection. The wind sliced at her – she wasn’t supposed to […]
During my A’levels I did alot of what I thought of as background reading – which was probably just procrastination – doing Biology, Chemistry, Geology and Classical Civilisation I spent alot of time reading up on human origins and space (with the result of being asked if I was a terrorist by the librarian :/) […]
Ok so from basically reading wikipedia and then checking in my oodleplex of books on early human evolution etc… I have ascertained that modern humans appeared 200, 000 yrs ago according to genetics rather than fossils (which say 195, 000) – I’m going with the genes on this one. There appear to be 14 anscestoral […]