As you know, a few sketches (OK, I don't know why I use that word, considering I read it with respect to Beethoven on his walks around the southern German woodlands when trying to find inspiration) around here have been about the experiences of Gaius Laelius. I'm now trying to tie the whole lot together and make it look plausible as well as historically accurate with respect to events, characters (woohoo, thank you Titus Livius Patavinus for giving me a complete main cast!!), most of the interactions and especially Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (to use his full name in retrospect). However, some of the theatricality in this first part is starting to make me weep, though how the hell am I supposed to fill out eight years of story when little happened in reality?! *sigh*
Anyway, the framing device I haven't touched upon properly and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what to put in all those conversations, and considering the narrator is Laelius, it should be kind of obvious what the framing device is: Polybius interviews Laelius, 160BC. Thus, question: to involve the younger members of the Scipionic Circle in these sections or not to involve them? *dramatic shrug*
On another note... sci-fi time... haven't done anything space-y in ages. So, here we go: cross between of the Napoleonic Wars & the Second Punic War (shut it, it's fiction!)... in space (well d'uh). So, how obvious a reference is the central character's name: Stafford?!
No?
*shrug* to lighter things then:
-_-
Bubi
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