Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction discussion

Wow, google translator! Now why I didn't think of that one? Thanks Dawn.

Google at least gave the general impression correctly. :)

That Medievalists group on FB are actually are cool website too.
http://www.medievalists.net/

Back from Alabama and the humidity!! Miss keeping up with everyone like I used to, but I'll be back on a normal schedule in January. Gonna check that Medievalist group.

We'll be here when your routine gets back on track, mate! :-)

Does anyone here know how to grow another pair of eyeballs outta my head?

I can't seem to read two books at the same time...sigh.

Answer: learn to read one faster. :-)

I read pretty fast.

:)

I am going to get some books tonight. And make a salad for my diet. :(

Diet yuck. Salad yum. :-)

I don't do diets. What I did do was change my life style. :)

Life style.

What's that?

No,no,no,no....no life styles. No way of eating. No change your outlook!

Kidding. I know. I eat healthy and exercise.

I have a lifestyle and way of eating, but sometimes I have to be good and actually eat vegetables and go to the gym. :(

Aria wrote: "Life style.

What's that?

No,no,no,no....no life styles. No way of eating. No change your outlook!

Kidding. I know. I eat healthy and exercise."

LOL. These days I am mostly vegetarian (no force in the universe will make me give up bacon).

Bacon, I just had some yesterday but when I remember muscle embedding cysts in pig bodies I worry. So I threw mine out.

Ooops.

I always think I should go back to being a veg when I see the trailer transports on the highway filled with those poor animals. It makes me so sad. :(

Lalalalala...stop it...I can't hear you!!! When we lived in Maine I bought a young bull to use for meat when it got older. We would drive by him every day taking the kids to school. One day when we went by he was gone and when I got back to the farm my freezer was full. My kids wouldn't touch the food. I'm the only one who lived on steak and hamburger for about a year!!

Aria wrote: "Bacon, I just had some yesterday but when I remember muscle embedding cysts in pig bodies I worry. So I threw mine out.

Ooops."

You threw out BACON???? *faints*

Bobby, I am completely OK with people who raise/hunt animals for their own use. Seriously, it is not an issue. I eat meat now but prefer to eat from organic, humanely raised sources. I'm talking about those trucks that just scream animal abuse and factory farming! It's enough to make me pause...

Bobby wrote: "Lalalalala...stop it...I can't hear you!!! When we lived in Maine I bought a young bull to use for meat when it got older. We would drive by him every day taking the kids to school. One day when we..."

I can understand this. I NEVER eat anything I know. I know where all my meat comes from as far as how it is processed and from what kind of farm, but I cannot 'know' my food. I even have a little trouble eating eggs from my own chickens...although I manage to eat them.

I agree, Terri. I could never eat something I raised either. Too sad...

In Maine it was all about economics....so much cheaper to buy your own beef and have it "processed" at a local butcher's. I didn't even think about how the kids would feel. Lesson learned *he says flipping another burger over*

I must say. Not such a bad thing having all that meat to yourself. I love my beef and would be happy not to share the steaks.

Greedy, greedy Terri!

As long as hunters eat what they hunt, I have no objection. It's the trophy hunters which I deeply dissaprove of. I often eat vegetarian meals. I doubt if i could be vegan, however. I love cheese too much.

Agreed Anne. Although I don't think I could kill something to eat it unless I absolutely had to. At one time in my youth I could field dress a deer though I would't shoot one. I could also skin almost anything. My uncle was a hunter and I enjoyed hanging out with him, and because I had no father of my own he let me tag along. He was a good guy.

Tasha wrote: "I always think I should go back to being a veg when I see the trailer transports on the highway filled with those poor animals. It makes me so sad. :("

UGH! I know it. I couldn't eat beef for weeks after we passed one of those trailers.

On the other hand, I love to see the dairy cattle at the fair. :) And the goats.

On the other hand, I love to see the dairy cattle at the fair. :) And the goats.

me too. :)

I love goats.

I wish I could raise goats. Herds and herds of goats. But I'm lazy. So I'm sure that the SPCA would get involved at some point so I should probably not get any goats. After all, they're like potato chips right? (Can't have just one?)

Had a couple of goats in Maine...Crimson and Clover. Just pets though. Had a couple of horses. An adopted wild mustang (which we got gentled so the wife could ride) and also a half Arab half Lipizzan orphan foal. The best producers?? Chickens!! Without a doubt. Easy maintenance and in Spring and Summer would get 12-15 eggs daily from a flock of 21!! Damn, looking back, I sound like a farmer. Wish that had been true.

That foal sounds like an interesting mix, Bobby.

Anne wrote: "As long as hunters eat what they hunt, I have no objection. It's the trophy hunters which I deeply dissaprove of. I often eat vegetarian meals. I doubt if i could be vegan, however. I love cheese t..."

I agree. I think hunting animals for fun is bad stuff. For food, yes, but only if the hunter needs it. As a farmer myself I don't think the killing of animals should be taken lightly.

Terri wrote: "That foal sounds like an interesting mix, Bobby."

Named her Eidelweiss, nicknamed Addie. Had to give her to some horse people when we moved to the Cayman Islands. *sobbing uncontrollably*

Ohh..:( Well at least she went to horse people.

Terri wrote: "Ohh..:( Well at least she went to horse people."

Good people too. Went back and visited her a few years later and all was well. Made me feel...okay.

Happy ending. :-)

Terri wrote: "That foal sounds like an interesting mix, Bobby."

I agree!!

Bobby wrote: "Terri wrote: "Had to give her to some horse people when we moved to the Cayman Islands. *sobbing uncontroll..."

Yes, and moving to Cayman Islands! A fate worse than death! ;)

Are there any other historical novelists (published or aspiring) in this group who would be interested in taking on the challenge of NaNoWriMo?

What the heck is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month, it is a program to help you write a novel within a month.

I'm thinking about it but I lack focus on what I want to write a novel about. I have one in mind that I have a few pages done but, it would involve a lot of time on the phone with my dad. I was kind of stalling on that one until I lose him to the afterlife, though.

Write a novel in only a month? Wow. It would take me a month just to do the research. :D

Terri wrote: "Write a novel in only a month? Wow. It would take me a month just to do the research. :D"

I was so tempted to say that... Do they do National Novel Writing Decade? I'd think about that one.

Yeah, sign me up for National Novel Writing Decade. ;)

Hi Sherry,
You may also want to pose this question in the Goodreads Authors thread - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

More authors may see it if you post about it there as well.

Really! I also have a series in mind but, it would involve some research. I am slow at most things because I get distracted so easily. I bet that I would need a few months to do the research! It would be great to find a program that guides you through one over a two year period. I think that would work for me....

I repeat myself, but I really like the books byJason Goodwin; the historical mysteries as and the others from the same series; the non-fiction ones like .

I own a couple of his non-fiction which I still have to read and I've got the second of his Yashim mysteries on my MP3 player to listen too.
I'm looking forward to all.

Simona wrote: "I repeat myself, but I really like the books byJason Goodwin; the historical mysteries as and the others from the same series; the non-fiction ones like[bookcov..."

So, Simona, what do you think of Jason Goodwin?
;)

Terri wrote: "Yeah, sign me up for National Novel Writing Decade. ;)"

Thanks, Terri! I will.