Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Katrina
I have been writing about Alexander, thus, the Greek gods and goddesses play an important role in his life which I am developing in my storyline. Oddly, I have learned all kinds of strange facts regarding these gods and goddesses of yore, which has helped me to understand today even.
My aunt and uncle became members of a spiritualist camp years ago, and so when I was in Florida in 1974, a lot of information about some of these camps which are based in Florida was made public through the Miami Herald. I have had psychic abilities since I was young, and I have also come to believe in spirits making themselves known to me at various times in my life.
Thanks to writing this project for NaNoWriMo, I learned something in the Iliad that fascinated me. I have something in common with Achilles besides heels it turns out.
When I was in Ft. Lauderdale, years ago, I was visited by the children of a neighbor who liked to play in my apartment when their parent and her boyfriend were not home. They needed adult companionship and a home away from home, so a little girl whose name was Eva would come to visit me. One day, she was playing and I was getting a shoe of mine back that she had taken from me when she began to cry. I told her then that it was crocodile tears and to stop crying. At that moment, I felt a tug on my hair from the back, and knew that some spirit had reached out and tugged at my hair so that I stopped teasing Eva then. While writing my book about Alexander, I happened upon a passage in the Iliad which tells of Athena pulling on Achille's red hair when he is getting angry at Agamemnon. I thought how strange! It made me sit up and take notice.
I still ponder that now.
But anyway, I began to wonder about spirits and gods and goddesses who let only certain mortals hear or see them. So it is with Katrina.
I had been told about one week before Katrina, through a spiritual voice which I heard clearly, that New Orleans would be hurting badly. That was when some hurricane threatened gulfside Florida and so I said it aloud, and that way I know that those who listen in to me heard me, but it was not for that hurricane but the one that followed which is Katrina. They had fair warning, one or two weeks early, is the way I felt about it. I have had a keen interest in hurricanes since years before that while in Michigan and another had threatened Florida.
At any rate, seeing this video of an abandoned six flags amusement park reminded me of my being able to hear not only the inner voice from within but also the voices of spirits around me. To my surprise, I was astounded to learn of Athena's admonition to Achilles which made me remember when I was in Ft. Lauderdale with Little Eva.
I may elaborate on this later but for now, that is all I will say. I have certainly learned of Alexander, Louis XIV, and others only through spiritual inner voices as well, and this has caught my fancy. My nephew posted this thanks to his interest in art. He was also responsible for my getting involved in the NaNoWriMo thing which has finally brought my book on Alexander to its genesis! Interesting at how life works sometimes,isn't it ?
My aunt and uncle became members of a spiritualist camp years ago, and so when I was in Florida in 1974, a lot of information about some of these camps which are based in Florida was made public through the Miami Herald. I have had psychic abilities since I was young, and I have also come to believe in spirits making themselves known to me at various times in my life.
Thanks to writing this project for NaNoWriMo, I learned something in the Iliad that fascinated me. I have something in common with Achilles besides heels it turns out.
When I was in Ft. Lauderdale, years ago, I was visited by the children of a neighbor who liked to play in my apartment when their parent and her boyfriend were not home. They needed adult companionship and a home away from home, so a little girl whose name was Eva would come to visit me. One day, she was playing and I was getting a shoe of mine back that she had taken from me when she began to cry. I told her then that it was crocodile tears and to stop crying. At that moment, I felt a tug on my hair from the back, and knew that some spirit had reached out and tugged at my hair so that I stopped teasing Eva then. While writing my book about Alexander, I happened upon a passage in the Iliad which tells of Athena pulling on Achille's red hair when he is getting angry at Agamemnon. I thought how strange! It made me sit up and take notice.
I still ponder that now.
But anyway, I began to wonder about spirits and gods and goddesses who let only certain mortals hear or see them. So it is with Katrina.
I had been told about one week before Katrina, through a spiritual voice which I heard clearly, that New Orleans would be hurting badly. That was when some hurricane threatened gulfside Florida and so I said it aloud, and that way I know that those who listen in to me heard me, but it was not for that hurricane but the one that followed which is Katrina. They had fair warning, one or two weeks early, is the way I felt about it. I have had a keen interest in hurricanes since years before that while in Michigan and another had threatened Florida.
At any rate, seeing this video of an abandoned six flags amusement park reminded me of my being able to hear not only the inner voice from within but also the voices of spirits around me. To my surprise, I was astounded to learn of Athena's admonition to Achilles which made me remember when I was in Ft. Lauderdale with Little Eva.
I may elaborate on this later but for now, that is all I will say. I have certainly learned of Alexander, Louis XIV, and others only through spiritual inner voices as well, and this has caught my fancy. My nephew posted this thanks to his interest in art. He was also responsible for my getting involved in the NaNoWriMo thing which has finally brought my book on Alexander to its genesis! Interesting at how life works sometimes,isn't it ?
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