Pax Gaea Human Rights World Post

The End Of The First Trimester

Writing any massive work is truly like giving birth and, tonight, we completed the first trimester of this baby we call Thatcher.

A word of advice to anyone writing historical fiction... don't! Straddling the line between the real and the make believe is like balancing elephants on a waterglass... totally possible but equally stupid! If you can't talk yourself out of historical fiction than pick an era where there is a lot of data because I can tell you there ain't shit on the French and Indian War and the the War of Spanish Succession! You can find more data than you will ever need for the colonial era leading up to 1699 and the period leading into the American War of Independence but the early 18th Century? All I can say is, thank Gaea, for the ananchronists for without those small groups of the historically obsessed I would have been totally screwed.

Props to the geeks of the world. Thank you. There are a small sliver of people who actually care enough about small segments of history, along with the Star Trek and Star War nerds, the Highlander Freaks and a huge body of pirate fanatics that are so passionate about their interest and possess such a profound capability to extrapolate on points of pure fantasy or conjecture and make it absolutely plausible.

We're going to take a couple of much needed days off to recharge our batteries and come back roaring into the second trimester. Metaphorically, this is usually the easy part as you get to feel the baby growing and you're over the morning sickness. Abortion or miscarriage are less likely now and you actually start to relish what you're bringing into the world. Writiers and mothers deserve and desperately need this little interlude because our minds and bodies are preparing for that last trimester when the swelling and back aches and the desire to just get this damn thing out of you is all you think about. You know that the labor pains are just around the corner and you constantly ask yourself why you ever wanted this baby in the first place until, at last, you deliver a 10 pound bouncing book.

Thanks to all the love and support we've received so far. Hopefully over this next trimester we'll be much more pleasant, less emotionally erratic and actually easier to reach.

That way, when the beastliness returns you can, if nothing else, shake your heads and marvel at our insanity and know it's almost over.

posted by Dave Carroll @ 9/29/2006 05:51:00 AM