I've actually had quite a good day today, as i have done not just one chapter but done a third of the next one too. I would have finished the second chapter, but im too tired to type anything further, and when i'm tired I find it difficult to write as i run out of ideas.
So what have i written? Well I sorted out chapters 8 and 9 which dealt with my MC's wedding and wedding night respectively - that was fun i can tell you- I've never written an 'x rated' scene before and as i wrote it i couldn't help but think that if it ever got published my mum, and both of my grandmother's would read it and i found that a bit cringeworthy, although i tried not to tone it down too much. One hint i've come across from somewhere was 'not to mention fluids' (if i find the link where i read that i'll post it) and so i didn't.
Chapter 10 was really nice to write as my MC and her new husband moved to there new home, and i wrote this really sweet bit about how she was so exhausted on arrival that he carried her to her bedroom, and would not allow the servants to do it, and then didn't attempt to seduce her and instead let her sleep. There was further x rated stuff the next day and a puppy and then by the end of chapter 10 she was 'up the duff' (unsurprisingly)
Chapter 11 is the birth of the child, and i was greatly inspired for the writing of this passage by the novel 'Innocent Traitor' by Alison Weir (who i am a bit of a fan of). She writes Tudor fiction and non fiction and I have two of her novels 'IT' and the Lady Elizabeth, but I also have her non-fiction book 'The lady in the tower' which is based on her research under Anne Boleyn. I absolutely love Tudor History and fiction - I studied the Tudors at degree level and loved every minute of it - however I am not writing Tudor fiction because the market is saturated with it due to leading Authors such as Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory who I also enjoy (despite the accuracies, outlandish theories and assumptions made in both- they are 'fiction' after all). I know there are plenty more out there but for me I love the Georgians particularly the clothing and the gowns like the Mantua (see above)and other wider court gowns (like that shown at the very top of this page).
I hope to finish chapter 11 tomorrow, and then i get to start work on the really dark and nitty gritty stuff (enter stage right: Grim Reaper), which is where my research on smallpox comes in. I can't wait!
I'm going to end with something funny today. I had a bit of a scare as i wrote this as i realised i had LOST 3000 words and chapter 11 had been saved as chapter 10 (I save under individual chapter names), I panicked, the real chapter 10 was nowhere to be found- all those hours of research and work wasted!!!! I went into recent documents and i saw that there were 2 chapter 10s and luckily I found the missing 3000 words saved in the wrong folder, but not before almost giving myself a heart attack. And if you thought that was funny see what you make of the picture below showing an 18th century lady in wide court dress over huge panniers so big she has to enter through a door sideways!
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