Posts Tagged ‘Cena Apicius’
Status Report
Posted by: Crystal King on: March 18, 2008
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For those of you wondering about my sporadic blogging and where I might be with the novel…
After NANOWRIMO I stalled a bit, mostly because I was trying to figure out if I really wanted to shift the entire POV of my story. I’ve not written in omniscient POV before so I have to admit I [...]
Struggling with POV
Posted by: Crystal King on: January 7, 2008
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I’m about halfway done with the first draft of my Apicius story. I have been feeling pretty darn good about those 50k words…loving the way that it looks printed out into 200 nice white pages. So imagine my chagrin when I received this feedback from my workshop instructor:
I know you’ve struggled a bit with your [...]
Friday Snippet ~ Cena Apicius: Reward
Posted by: Crystal King on: November 9, 2007
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Cena Apicius is a working title for a historical fiction novel about the life of Marcus Gavius Apicius, a wealthy Roman noble who lived in the early first century. Very little is known about him save for snippets of information left behind in works by Seneca, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder and others. He was [...]
NANOWRIMO Day 6
Posted by: Crystal King on: November 6, 2007
- In: Writing| nanowrimo
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2100 words for total of 13194.
Total for my book right now–41, 670. Approx 171 pages 12pt double spaced.
Neck loathes me.
NANOWRIMO Day 4
Posted by: Crystal King on: November 4, 2007
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Wow. I wrung another 4077 words out today. Total for NANOWRIMO: 9408 or 19% of the way there. Not too bad for only being four days in. I figure that there will be at least 6-7 days this month where I won’t be able to write anything so I wanted to try and get [...]
Dreary, Rainy
Posted by: Crystal King on: October 8, 2007
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Mind over matter
In the tedious dark
of my rain-soaked morning,
three red leaves fall.
Yellow button mushrooms
absorb water like thick sponges.
I wilt beneath
bright flourescent lights.
c.2004 clk
Didn’t manage 4k this weekend but I did do a lot of editing out Apicius POV as well as added 1755 words in a new chapter. Between the two I probably managed about [...]
Weekend Goals
Posted by: Crystal King on: October 5, 2007
No Friday Snippet again this week…just too much going on but next week, yes, yes, there will be more Romans for you all.
Writing goal for the weekend: 4k words. That doesn’t include the revamping of one of the Apicius POV sections, making it instead Sotas.
For November I’ll be cheating on NANOWRIMO and working on this [...]
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