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uuugh I want to be published now so you all can read The Princess and the Witch and understand what I’ve been ranting about for the past year and tell me what a wonderful amazing writer I am.
I know there’s no guarantee, and I really shouldn’t be cocky about it or anything, but fuck it, I’m like 90% sure it’ll get published. I undertook this one idea that I had for a story because I knew it could sell and form a good solid foundation for a writing career for me. Plus, I’m proud of what I wrote. It’s got a lot more than just the mystery of Anastasia and the Romanovs to sell it.
White propaganda poster, “Lieutenant - General Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel” in a series of “generals” posters. VSYUR. 1919.
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Agent is going to send me to another editor.
Apparently, the first one was swamped when I sent her the manuscript, that’s why I didn’t hear back. That’s understandable, but a message saying “this might take a while because I’m swamped.” would have been nice.
Anyway, things *should* be moving again.
In other news, I think I fanally got the first sex scene 100% right and good and properly innocent and adorable and hot at the same time.
at least i hope so.
A White history nerd listens to N*ggas in Paris
- Jay-Z: If you escaped what I escaped, you'd be in Paris gettin' fucked up, too
- me: omg that sums up the post-revolution Russian aristocracy perfectly.
Update to the publication process
So, I never heard back from the editor that Agent recommended. Seriously, up until I sent the manuscript off, everything seemed all professional and fine and moving along, and then I never ever heard back. I emailed twice asking what was going on, and I didn’t even get a “sorry, but I can’t undertake this project right now for personal reasons” or anything. So Agent as said that she’ll look for another editor in my price range. O_O I’m going to chalk this up to just being bizarre and hope that things will get moving ance again. On the bright side, I did get to add to some scenes in ways that hopefully made them better. I hope, anyway.
Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916) with Dr. Levi Cooper Lane in surgical amphitheater at Cooper Medical College by Stanford Medical History Center
1901
Ilya would be in the seats trying very hard not to squee.
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aaaaah I thought this wouldn’t fit into the soundrack but now I’m adding to the scene where Ilya accidentally walks in on her wearing Zinaida’s dress and she’s basically mourning the husband she never had.
You think you know your mother and father, who they are, and what they mean. Then they’re gone and the photos and letters they leave behind tell an entirely different story.
fantastic article about a woman coming to terms with the people her abusive, fucked-up parents used to be. Fits in with my recent fascination with parent-child relationships and how you have to grow from your parents mistakes.<M
Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Maria visiting wounded soldiers at the hospital at Tsarskoe Selo: 1916.
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The Catching Fire trailer got me all feels-y
And not because I love the books and I’m super-excited about the movie (although that’s vary very true).
It’s the revolution/riot feels.
Yeah ever since learning about the circumstances of the Russian Revolution and trying to write two riot scenes (one of which basically got cut out), seeing riot scenes anywhere just makes me HNNNNNNNG with feels. I love them because they are so fucking hard to write. Yeah, in the riot scene that I kept, Ilya is blundering around going “omg wtf am I doing I’m going to die” because I was thinking the exact same thing.
so yeah.
Masked protesters + police brutality + burning things = 
X Marks the spot, I guess
when I was reading the old medical books for TPATW’s medical scenes, I kept reading about roentgen rays and being confused. They’re the fancy name for x-rays.
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