Deviation Actions
After more than a year working on the project and struggling through everything between family demands, my job, and writer's block, I finally completed the draft of my eighth novel "The Girl with No Name" - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d… I have been off-line and not worked with Poser over the past two months so I could push through the final chapters, before anything else jumped into my life or I got nailed with writer's block again. Over the winter I still need to look at it and do a little editing (especially in chapter 30) but at least the story is written from end-to-end. There are 34 chapters plus an introduction from the story's narrator. The concluding chapters are as follows:
Chapter 29 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
Chapter 30 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
Chapter 31 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
Chapter 32 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
Chapter 33 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
Chapter 34 - www.asstr.org/~caligula97030/d…
"The Girl with No Name" is the fourth of my novels that uses my fictional country of Danubia as a setting, but it is different from the others because the plot follows the travels and adventures of a young female protagonist between 1750 and 1760. The purpose of the story was to explore Danubia, both for my readers and myself, looking at both its geography and an important period of the country's history. A theme running throughout the story is how an ordinary person can become the topic of a legend due to the unusual events she must endure and other people misinterpreting her actions. Because my knowledge of daily life in the 1700s is only superficial and limited to what I've seen in places like Montecello and the Smithsonian, trying to create an environment that could at least plausibly reflect a real one from the eighteenth century turned out to be more of a challenge than I anticipated and was one of the factors complicating the writing as I worked my way through the chapters.
No project that's worth anything is the product of only a single person. In the case of creating "The Girl with No Name" I had a full year of assistance from Ed Harley (Darylius) darylius.deviantart.com/ who patiently read through all my chapters, spotted numerous typos I overlooked, pointed out sentences and paragraphs that didn't make sense or fit properly in the narrative, and gave me some factual observations to make the novel more accurately reflect the time in which it takes place. Ed spent a lot of time and patience assisting me, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him.