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I'll check Janet.  Now that I am the bookkeeper for the library, I have the keys and have the ability to check email more frequently, not restricted by hours! 

 Aren't lighthouses cool?  I LOVE my job so much!!!  I'll put the link to our webpage on my profile, so if you're interested you can look.

I do still want to do that 19th cent, but the middle ages just keep calling me.  Ann will be a good cp, she's a writer too and very honest with me about stuff. 

Still needing some extra work to pay the bills and be able to move into my own place someday.  I think I"ll finish my accounting degree, but I'm praying that some things will come up.  I wasn't doing too well in the city and am making less now than I was then.....So, since I do feel this is where I'm supposed to be, I'll keep praying and working on it.

Michelle, I agree, just because they can't recreate doesn't mean it didn't happen.  And so much in the ancient world wasn't recorded because there wasn't writing, or if it was it was lost to war, flood, fire......think of all the mummies destroyed for firewood by the first explorers of Egypt.....what else got tossed aside or destroyed?

I am having so much fun with my Anglo-Saxon research, re-reading some old stuff and discovering some new!  I hope to start typing on the story as soon as I've finished the second drafting by hand. 

I'm making some good progress on the second medieval.  I've decided to target it to the historical fiction like Jean Plaidy, Phillipa Gregory, etc.....Eadred was just too much of a hero on his own to be totally fictionalised, he deserves a "biography,"  even if slightly fiction.  I still don't really have a cp other than my sister.....oh well. 

What's that?  I don't remember....the last one I saw was about 6 hours away from here.   Here in the middle of nowhere if I want a hamburger without making it myself, I have to drive to town and go to the bar.......there is a sit down restaurant, but no hamburgers to go there and the restaurant at the Falls is 12 miles away....

But I LOVE the middle of nowhere, really I do.

Working away on the historical fiction!!!

Thanks Michelle!  I have read all her books---that's where I got my start reading historical romances.....I guess I just wasn't making those distinctions in my mind.

That's a hard choice, to me.  I have story ideas, one that got rejected last spring, that are totally fiction---the HH end of the spectrum as you said----but the more I read about this particular person, the more I want to tell about HIM---not an imagined hero who vaguely resembles him. 

I can do both----it has been done, obviously.  I would just need to target this kind elsewhere......correct?

What about books like Jean Plaidy's books where various queens and kings are the hero and heroine?  They are real historical figures, and she used them....

Just curious, probably will just change some names on mine......make my own hero.....but the real King has such a history, he'd make a great hero in historical fiction, I think.....hmmmm....

Uhh....I write the synopsis after the story----but I think I do not write them well.  Probably need to work on that.

I'm currently working on the first draft of another medieaval, 10th century---

Well, I thought I was terrible at cleaning until now and the person I am staying with, sweet as she it, is a ... slob.  It's driving me nutty---and not just the cats on the counters and the tables, but I feel like I keep an immaculate house now.

When in my own place, I do live with a bit of Corgi hair, because for a Corgi owner, Corgi hair is a part of life....period.  There will always be my quilting bag in the living room and my research books and writing in neat stacks.  Other than that, I keep things up.  I find that spot cleaning and dusting when you can keeps things up so that it never really gets DIRTY.  I scrub the floors probably once a month, but sweep and pick up daily---a must with Corgi hair.  I keep the dishes up so there's not usually any in the sink except maybe in the morning if I'm in a hurry.  I never really have to scrub the bath because I keep it up, wipe the shower so it stays dry....etc.

I always thought I was messy, but my current experience has shown me that I am actually quite neat. 

I won't say any more---you can read it when it gets published (fingers and toes crossed!!)....

WOW on that link!!!  Thank you Carol!!!!

I do have a question though, are their any decent maps of England of the 10th century online?  I know some of my books have good ones, but they are all in storage. 

I forgot what that is.  I'm wearing a sweatshirt, it's in the 50's and not likely to be much warmer. 

I LOVE the middle of nowhere.......