Gabrielle Bisset

Monday, February 28, 2011

The Kernal Of An Idea

I'm teaching a course on medieval Europe this semester and while I was scouring the library for a film to show about the First World War (another class, obviously), I came upon a book about chivalry and its connection to religion in the Middle Ages.  I'm a sucker for books like this, so I picked it up along with my video and beat feet out of there to make it to my first class. 

When I got home, I began to read the book and I don't think I made it four pages in before I was jotting down ideas for a medieval romance story.  I don't have anything really fleshed out, but I'm feeling the novella vibe for this one--around 25,000 words.  Since this is one of my favorite periods in history, I'm not surprised my brain is popping with ideas. 

I don't know what's going to shake out with this, but I like the idea of knights, those wonderful Alpha males in chainmail, maybe misbehaving.  Maybe nothing too serious but far more erotic for this story.  Hmmm....we'll have to see. 

3 comments:

Shah Wharton said... 1

Wow - your imagination is a powerful thing, huh? I'm actually terrified of trying to writing a sex scene and it flows out of you. I'm re-doing my edit and its quite frankly digging me into a hole! ;(

Great to see you at my blog - wasn't that article great? Its great to have things like that just laid out there for pople like me to recognise and 'delete' - lol! Shah .X

Unknown said... 2

I loved that article! It was just what writers need to be reminded of. But don't worry about the love scenes. They'll happen.

Demitria said... 3

Sounds interesting...love historical fiction, especially with hot guys.

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