So I Guess I'd Better Write Something

[xifeng]

I just haven't had a lot to report lately, to be honest, though I've been cooking most of this week (I did a rainbow vegetable stir-fry on Tuesday, and tonight I made turkey kielbasa with sweet cooked purple cabbage. Tomorrow, we dine on chicken enchiladas. (For those of you who might be interested, there's a food blog, though I'll continue to talk about things I cook here.)

Finally finished The Great Sea by David Abulafia. I will almost always buy history sight unseen, on the grounds that it's history and therefore must be good, but this was really interesting; it's a history of the Mediterranean and the cultural, politial, and economic interactions that took place around it. The ancient world stuff wasn't unfamiliar to me, though I admit Magna Graecia hasn't been my study, but a lot of the later chapters were eye-opening - I knew Russia really, really wanted a warm-water port (sometimes with disastrous results), but I didn't know there had been shenanigans as far south as the Mediterranean. Anyway, I'm glad I bought it and plan to mine the bibliography indefinitely.

Also, somebody stop me before I obsess again. The good news is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of source material in English.

Somehow, I managed to churn out a bit of story before I fell asleep last night. This is on The Project I Don't Like, Why Am I Writing It, but I figure if I plow ahead I could turn it into a project I like better.

And, you know, that's really it, other than the we've-stopped-the-overtime-for-now thing. (I'm not holding my breath, though!)

Comments

[rubyelf.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to plow ahead and keep working on something until eventually it starts turning into something you can work with...

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Either that, or it gets scrapped altogether. The plot is entirely too similar to something else I'd like to do (to the point that I'm failing to see how they're not the same story, other than in minor details), but if nothing else, at least I'm writing something, which is all I care about.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

So adding the Great Sea to the read list.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

DOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT. It is a long book, but it's so worth it; there are the most ridiculously fascinating little tidbits in there, and the big picture is so rich and complex. (I mean, how could it be otherwise.)