Finalizing my book on Alexander

The way that Nanowrimo works is that you have to cut and paste and send your story to them to do a word count. At present, I have 53,600 words or so and will on saturday send it in to the officials to see what their formulator says that I have in terms of word counts. The number of words is not quite so important as the novel itself which in my case needs a lot of work and revisions. I have a lot of repetitions in it due to my trying to decide to use a narrative style or a first person journal style. As it is I am incorporating both. My book is basically trying to prove that the gods and goddesses who are prevalent in Homer's Iliad are also a part of Alexander's own life and travels. I will interject them in my books about Alexander as helping him just as Homer had done with Achilles. I am also proving that the stories, plays, and poetry of the period influenced Alexander so much as a child that he is under its influence all the rest of his life, especially his love and admiration for Achilles.

I did go back through a lot of it last night to try to clean it up and to make a few changes in the way of typos and spelling as well as a few faulty sentence structure problems.

I get tired of it a lot that way, but I found that this is one of the better stories about Alexander, least boring,and certainly closest to historical data and bios as I followed the history pretty nearly exactly. I take liberties of course where the historians cannot but I often find them to be utterly devoid of putting 2 and 2 together at times to realize what actually happened.I could figure it out. Why couldn't they? At least, my interpretation makes it a more interesting story but I still need to beef it up a lot.

I won't cite examples yet where I think biographers goofed but I did use my story to insert what I believe really happened.

My book is a bit more cohesive than most are. It will all make a lot of sense when and if someone wants to really come to know Alexander as I have come to know him.

Believe it or not, I find myself going back in time a lot as I get vivid pictures now and then. It is exciting for me that way too. Some would say active imagination...ha...don't they know better yet than to think that. So I checked it out. I could see Corinth so easily, and so I looked it up. Fascinating to me at how true my picture has proved to be. I love the place! Guess that means I will put a video of Corinth to follow this...if I find a good one, it will be posted.