Building a Castle
You'll be happy to hear that so far my heroine has not yet run away with the stableboy. (Please imagine one very relieved author.) Well, I didn't give her a chance to run away with the stableboy. For today it occurred to me that I haven't yet mapped out the castle. THE main setting. And I always, always work with plans. Or maps. Or whatever comes in handy.
So today I built a castle.
And it turned out it's a rather good thing I've got this habit of buying random books which I might (or might not) need for future research. I've got books on the medieval warhorse, on colours, on Victorian shopping, dogs, wolves, snails (when I was little I had a snail -- "Schnucki" -- as a pet), Paris, underwear, tea, pirates, Celts, etc. And seven years ago I bought a book with the nice title BURGENKUNDE, a reprint of a book originally published in 1912. It's got 711 pages and it tells you everything, everything about the architecture of castles. *biiig smile*
So I built a very nice castle today!
Hooray!
So today I built a castle.
And it turned out it's a rather good thing I've got this habit of buying random books which I might (or might not) need for future research. I've got books on the medieval warhorse, on colours, on Victorian shopping, dogs, wolves, snails (when I was little I had a snail -- "Schnucki" -- as a pet), Paris, underwear, tea, pirates, Celts, etc. And seven years ago I bought a book with the nice title BURGENKUNDE, a reprint of a book originally published in 1912. It's got 711 pages and it tells you everything, everything about the architecture of castles. *biiig smile*
So I built a very nice castle today!
Hooray!
posted by Sandra Schwab @ 7:15 PM
2 Comments:
At September 01, 2005 12:03 AM,
Silvana said…
Wow, I always wonder where do you get all the information, authors! It's very difficult to find some things... Sometimes I write for fun and when I need some history information it's rather difficult to find it... Great idea! (Buying all those books you just said...) ;)
At September 01, 2005 12:40 AM,
Sandra Schwab said…
Yes, some things are a bit difficult to figure out. Like underwear. *sigh* Which explains why Lillian is wearing only half of her underwear (she should've been wearing stays, too!) in the final love scene! *G*
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