Apparently, my recent burnout only applies to historical fiction, not history. I’ve no idea why this is. Perhaps I’m just craving some truth! In any case, I definitely needed an escape from the Tudors. My nanowrimo novel is set in the late Victorian period in England, so I was thrilled to discover a biography of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick in the library yesterday. When my parents were visiting, we went up to Warwick Castle, and they have a large exhibit based on one of her house parties, complete with wax figures of all the guests from Madame Tussauds in the rooms that they stayed in. The brief explanations of the personalities were not enough for me, so I thought it would be exciting to learn about this woman who was simultaneously a political figure and the mistress of many of the period’s important men, and I was right. It seems like a life in contradictions, but she straddles a fascinating divide between an ignorant aristocracy and an aristocracy campaigning for the rights of ordinary working people.
That novel is going fairly well. I’m ahead of the curve at 17,603 words. I haven’t written anything today yet, but I hope to a bit later on. We had Sky TV installed today and we’ve been busy playing with it rather than getting anything else accomplished. I’m a little less involved with the novel than I was a week ago, but I’m still finding my daily quota easy to meet, and I hope that continues.
One bookish thing I’m very excited about participating in this holiday season is the Book Blogger Holiday Swap. I can’t wait to find out who I’m buying a gift for. If you want to sign up, you have until November 12th, so don’t wait!
Finally, I’d better get back to my novel, but have a wedding picture:
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It is great to finally see a wedding picture – I’m off to have a look at the rest!
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The strike may have delayed them – the CD came in the post last week. We wanted to post the originals, not the ones with the photographer’s watermark on them!
I love that picture! You look gorgeous and so happy!
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So lovely! Thanks for sharing with us. Now I want to get married!!!
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Hi Meghan
Thank you for sharing.
I loved the picture.
You look radiant!
Love & Best Wishes to you & yours,
RKCharron
xoxo
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Your wedding pictures are lovely! It looks like you had nice weather for the big day.
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Beautiful picture of the two of you! I looked at your gallery, too and your pictures are amazing. How nice with the fall colors in the background, too!
I’m glad to hear your Nanowrimo novel is going well. It seems many book bloggers are doing this in November. I wish you the best of fun!
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You look gorgeous. Great job with your novel!
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Love your hair–that is gorgeous!
Having waxed figures posed in a historical house sounds… kinda creepy, actually. Very Halloween-ish.
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The only creepy part about them is that they look exactly like real people! They’re startling when you come around a corner and there’s a wax butler – you expect him to start moving. They look even more like real people in the pictures.
The blue and yellow totally pops! You guys looks so happily gorgeous. Congratulations again and here’s to much happiness
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What a gorgeous photo – you two look wonderful together. You’re doing great with NaNoWriMo – keep it up!
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Thanks so much for sharing your wedding photos with us! You looked lovely, and both of you look very happy!
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Thank you for all your kind comments everyone! =)
How beautiful. I wished I had looked so good on my wedding day! :–) It’s great that there is a mechanism for sharing your pictures, isn’t it? Thanks for doing it; it was almost like being there!
You are both so beautiful! What a happy and loving photo. I’ll be off to see the other in a second.
Good luck on your novel — I’m rooting for you.
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I love looking at wedding photos – thanks for sharing. You look beautiful
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I love your photos! The background is so lovely, too.
I think it is very funny that you’re more burned out on hist fic than on history, after finishing your dissertation. That’s okay, though, it isn’t as if you don’t have anything else you’d like to read!
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The pictures are so beautiful. You make a very wonderful couple. Oh so cute! I liked all the nature settings and glad the weather cooperated for you. I wish much happiness in your marriage.
As far as the reading goes, I never heard of the Countess until recently, and you have certainly piqued my interest. She sounds like a great character to read about.
Good luck writing as well.
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Love the pictures and wow the backdrop is really stunning!
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Just had a chance to look through your wedding pictures and you look absolutely stunning! I love the very British thing of wearing hats at wedding – I went to a wedding in Northern Ireland a few years ago and there were definite rules about who wore what kinds of hats.
Good luck on your novel, and enjoy being married!!!
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Sounds like you’re making good progress on your writing. I love the picture.
That’s really nice, that you are not tired with history as such
Glad to know your writing is going well!
Love the picture! You look so pretty and…what’s the good word for glowing… GOD! my vocab is bad
I hope you get what I want to say!
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I’m glad that your writing is going so well! That photo is absolutely beautiful!
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That’s a great picture of the two of you! I am glad that you are making your word quota as well. I am a huge lover of historical fiction, but not really so crazy about history by itself, but I have a history book on my stack for review, so I am going to have to get crackin!
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I’m super excited for the Book Blogger Holiday Swap, too! Glad your novel is going well. And your wedding photo is awesome — congrats again!
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