WIP CHALLENGE CHECK-IN, DAY 20 -- Thursday

[igenlode]

Happy Thursday!
Good morning to our friends in Alaska and good evening to those in Paris -- how is/was/will have been your writing experience today?

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[igenlode]

I spent a good deal of time yesterday researching period military campaigns and coming to the conclusion that canon dating is so wildly inaccurate (as in, almost a generation out) that I couldn't really use any of them. Then I stumbled across a reference in an early chapter that I had completely forgotten about, mentioning that the character in question actually did canonically go on campaign and was spectacularly wounded there, which turns out to be perfect for the old-soldier-yarning-to-the-boys scene I'd wanted to have :-) (And because it's firm canon in the original book, I can happily ignore the fact that the character's regiment wasn't historically involved and that the 'real' version of him hadn't joined up yet at that date anyway -- this was a completely different campaign from the ones I'd been looking at in any case, being the Ten Years' War rather than the Thirty Years' War :-P)

Now I'm trying to find out about Mass celebrations (as opposed to massed celebrations) and only getting a whole lot of extremely generalised stuff about the Counter-Reformation; I'm currently ploughing through someone's forty-page academic journal article on Les prêtres des campagnes de la France du XVIIe siècle, which is all about the recruitment of parish priests in different regions of France, and is a trifle *too* specific...

[fleetsparrow]

Wow! Research heavy day, but sounds very fruitful!

[igenlode]

Well. I can claim to have acquired a good deal of possibly potentially usable historical knowledge, although since I only have another page or so to write on the story it definitely isn't going to figure in here ;-)

[linaewen]

I did a bit of writing, nothing stellar, but it kept my hand in!

[igenlode]

Anything that serves to keep the words flowing!

[fleetsparrow]

I wrote today. Not on my fic, which I'd intended, but I did write, and I'm counting it. I'm scheduled for work tomorrow, so I'm hoping the structured routine will help immensely with fic writing.

[igenlode]

Yes, I find that I actually get a lot more done in the slivers of time between structured activities than I do with a theoretically 'free' day. Or at least I more reliably get *something* done, even if it's not a lot...