Dear all,
I wish you all the best for the year MMVII!
Let us work harder to recreate lost worlds and to help this one to be found, and make it so Humanity is, then, and now, our priority (though the rest of living beings will certainly appreciate some efforts, right?)
Blessed be all in 2007! KALLISTI!
2006-12-31
2006-12-18
La Ŝtona Urbo
While I keep on writing Revolt! I am doing two Historical Fiction projects in parallel:
The first one comes from my desire to project current Africa abhominable situation in all economical, medical and cultural fronts, I'm absolutely horrified and I wish to make my bit from my poor, dried ingenuity to help raise awareness in the "First World". Thus, I'd like to write a HF novel set in an ancient, African culture (not Egyptian and not Phoenician), preferrably before Christianism and Islam, but I am open --at least at the moment-- for later times (pre-colonial times, though). I'll thank help from my readers!
The second one is a HF novel written by English-born, Belgian writer Anna Löwenstein, The City of Stone. Why the funny title, then? Simple: it's written in Esperanto. She wrote the original manuscript in English, and translated the novel to E-o herself. Last Friday, December 15th was the Zamenhofa Tago, the Day of Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, and good excuse to get together, have a great meal with friends and new friends and have a wonderful time, which we did this Saturday... After the meal in Madrid, we moved to a bookstore with is a kind of de facto Esperanto broadcast center (it's where a friend of mine regularly gives Esperanto courses) and over there, besides watching Gerda malaperis, a Brazilian movie adapting Claude Piron's book of the same title, we could peruse and buy book about and in Esperanto from the friends at the different E-o organizations that attended (we were over 30 people, which is about twice last year's meal, and who knows next year? :-)
Thus, I got the book, in Esperanto. Great novel (so I'm told) and a great way to practice the language. The book tells the story of a Celtic woman (from Britannia) who gets enslaved and goes to Rome in Nero's time, dealing with Celtic, Roman and early Christianism... I'm moving ahead pretty slowly at the moment, but I expect to get a good pace soon; I'll let you know.
And that's the state of things in this last weeks of this year... Let's see how things end and may 2007 bring us all closer to our dreams!
KALLISTI!
PS- Esperanto resources: Lernu! and World Esperanto Association
- (re)searching for information about aboriginal African cultures
- reading La Ŝtona Urbo
The first one comes from my desire to project current Africa abhominable situation in all economical, medical and cultural fronts, I'm absolutely horrified and I wish to make my bit from my poor, dried ingenuity to help raise awareness in the "First World". Thus, I'd like to write a HF novel set in an ancient, African culture (not Egyptian and not Phoenician), preferrably before Christianism and Islam, but I am open --at least at the moment-- for later times (pre-colonial times, though). I'll thank help from my readers!
The second one is a HF novel written by English-born, Belgian writer Anna Löwenstein, The City of Stone. Why the funny title, then? Simple: it's written in Esperanto. She wrote the original manuscript in English, and translated the novel to E-o herself. Last Friday, December 15th was the Zamenhofa Tago, the Day of Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, and good excuse to get together, have a great meal with friends and new friends and have a wonderful time, which we did this Saturday... After the meal in Madrid, we moved to a bookstore with is a kind of de facto Esperanto broadcast center (it's where a friend of mine regularly gives Esperanto courses) and over there, besides watching Gerda malaperis, a Brazilian movie adapting Claude Piron's book of the same title, we could peruse and buy book about and in Esperanto from the friends at the different E-o organizations that attended (we were over 30 people, which is about twice last year's meal, and who knows next year? :-)
Thus, I got the book, in Esperanto. Great novel (so I'm told) and a great way to practice the language. The book tells the story of a Celtic woman (from Britannia) who gets enslaved and goes to Rome in Nero's time, dealing with Celtic, Roman and early Christianism... I'm moving ahead pretty slowly at the moment, but I expect to get a good pace soon; I'll let you know.
And that's the state of things in this last weeks of this year... Let's see how things end and may 2007 bring us all closer to our dreams!
KALLISTI!
PS- Esperanto resources: Lernu! and World Esperanto Association
2006-12-01
:-)
I did it :-)
It was really hard, work kicked in really hard the last 2 weeks, and I am literally exhausted.
But I did it.
:-)
Revolt! has finished Part Two (the Antithesis) and it's right in the start of Part Three (Synthesis). The last (long, over 11,000 words!) chapter of Part Two, with the clymax of the Battle of Lade was particularly cool to write, I tried to follow my own advice and instinct and wrote the whole battle from a single point of view: it's less descriptive but way more intense and vivid, I really like it.
I'll keep writing this novel down to the end, I am enjoying the characters and the overall story too much to stop now!
Keep tuned for more news about it, in the mean time, please bear with me when I add this icon for History... ;-)
KALLISTI!
It was really hard, work kicked in really hard the last 2 weeks, and I am literally exhausted.
But I did it.
:-)
Revolt! has finished Part Two (the Antithesis) and it's right in the start of Part Three (Synthesis). The last (long, over 11,000 words!) chapter of Part Two, with the clymax of the Battle of Lade was particularly cool to write, I tried to follow my own advice and instinct and wrote the whole battle from a single point of view: it's less descriptive but way more intense and vivid, I really like it.
I'll keep writing this novel down to the end, I am enjoying the characters and the overall story too much to stop now!
Keep tuned for more news about it, in the mean time, please bear with me when I add this icon for History... ;-)
KALLISTI!
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