Writing a Historical Fiction novel - AMA

Sure

You're not OP, I am.

>The Britons are defending against the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
Cornwell already did it as well as it'll ever been done

No, he didn't. There are many mistakes and I don't find he captured the setting well at all (like having castles when they didn't exist at the time).

Proper motte and baileys or just hillforts?

>Cats.
L O N D O N

This one boi who's really into Seleucid history became Antiochus III Megas.

With his knowledge of the Seleucids, he tries to save the empire from crumbling into pieces.

I know it kinda sounds like jap manga but pls no bully.

With a moat, stone walls, parapets.

Obviously hillforts existed, but hillforts aren't castles.

Are you planning on writing it?

What do you mean London?

Maybe in my language, but still not sure.

>but hillforts aren't castles.
Depends on how you define the word "castle".

Are we really going to play semantics? It's not like these, but Bernard thinks it was.

No, I'm just saying that the constructs on top of hills known as hillforts could very well be classified as castles.

Yes, you're playing semantics. Fuck off.

Then don't deny a hillfort its right to sexually identify as a castle.

that anime picture is totally unrelated to the topic, your message, the way the message is supposed to be read, and what it's supposed to mean
in other words it's unnecessary
why did you do that

Get the fuck out.

nobody cares about romano-britons

Why not?

Why?

You're playing semantics as well you moron.
>Nu uh, hillforts don't really fit the definition of castle. Akschtually...

You're right

I asked first. what was the thought process that made you decide to attach that (fucking disgusting) unrelated anime picture

I'm not. I don't care about this "argument" at all. I never said hillforts don't fit the definition of castles.

You're being a cunt.

...

this is not an answer

Why not?

>You're being a cunt.
Fuck me sideways and call me Sally, I had no idea. OP can take his AMA thread to Reddit or another, more relevant board.

can you better articulate your answer, ideally not turning it into a counter-question

Dude, stop posting hentai.

Why would I? This is an anime website, OP has made a barely relevant attentionwhoring thread that should go on Reddit and he's obviously a massive newfag who hasn't lurked a single month.

this was born as an anime website, and has since then evolved into much more than that, with many specialised boards, like this very one, that have nothing to do with anime at all*
I'm also not here to demand an answer, hence why I asked you if you could actually give me an answer, which apparently you really don't want to do, which is fine

Shut up nigger

Yet anime is still relevant and there is no reason to not post it in non-image dump threads or boards.

Doing God's work user

Neither of those two were the real Theodwita (me, the OP).

there not being a reason not to do something does not equate there being a reason to do something
Furthermore you know very well anime picture can lead to thread derailing, which happening right now, and you could deem that a reason not to post anime (or anything really) when it is not relevant to the topic at hand

>Furthermore you know very well anime picture can lead to thread derailing

has yes unnecessary sarcasm when I didn't even say or imply that's a serious issue in the first place

>has yes unnecessary sarcasm when I didn't even say or imply that's a serious issue in the first place
>has anyone gone as far as even
Put your sentences through a grammar checker or something before you post, please.

I'll expand the sentence for your understanding:
ah yes, you are expressing sarcasm, through the picture you posted, saying "oh no! that sucks...", implying that the risk of derailing a thread through posting anime is trivial, not worth thinking about, thus unimportant. I deem this sarcasm uncalled for, unnecessary, because, unlike you suggest with the picture, I never meant to say that the risk of derailing is a serious issue

Are you autistic? Serious question.
Or are you just so fucking new you think your anonymous opinions have any fucking value to anyone here?
> I deem this sarcasm uncalled for, unnecessary,
Nobody gives a fuck about what you "deem". The sooner you learn this and lurk a little the better.

I know perfectly well you nor anyone give a fuck about it, this fact is however irrelevant

You have the odd interests, knowing that nobody cares, yet still posting so seriously.

Not true. There's too much fantasy shit in it.

I do love the Winter King mod for CK2 though, gotta say.

Yes there are mistakes in the novel - but the majority are as a result of adapting the overall flow of Arthurian romance to an otherwise texturally plausible sub-Roman setting.

He does not once mention castles in the entire trilogy. I have read them, many, many times. Caer Cadarn, Ratae etc. All are either hill-forts, or re-used Roman fortifications. The word castle does not appear. I'd agree there are infelicities in the book - but this is not one of them.

t. Cornwell fan, DPhil on post-Roman Britain

Will there be allegory?

5 4 B I L L I O N

You're not Doctor Phil on post-Roman Britain.

Mentions castles in the opening pages, mate. Before Morgaine is introduced.

If you do actually have a DPhil, what is your name?

Oxford will have some record of you, presumably.

thats the most mangoo plot i have ever heard

You're talking shit. There wasn't a single castle in the series except for one walled city in Britanny.

I'm sure you'll do better kek

AYY LMAO
He actually believes that.

Huh?

"I jumped from the ramparts"
"We were a mile away from the fortress,"
"the yellow palisades atop the ramparts,"
"Her small brick house that faced on to a stone-paved street"
"ran in rivulets down the rough brick walls."

He can call them hillforts, but hillforts didn't have ramparts, palisades, stone paved streets (even repurposed roman towns like Caer Ligualid). And the walls were all wrecked. Even Hadrian's wall was in poor shape in the 380's, some cities had already started collapsing then. Mid five hundreds, when the novel is set? Yeah.

Also, the "Roman style house" Lunete supposedly has would have been wattle/daub and timber, though a Roman shape (i.e rectangular, two floors), with pillars and cross-sections and windows.

it's not clear that german settlement in england was at all destructive. for all we know the saxons may have been invited by local rulers to police the sea coast, so saxons settled along the thames and kent and east essex, after which they got involved in politics and expanded their dominions in what could have been a peaceful or coercive fashion. we just don't know. but considering that the genetic makeup of the british isles is still overwhelmingly celtic, that probably indicates that the saxons made themselves the ruling class while leaving the peasantry untouched.

>brick house = castle

but castle comes from the latin "castellum" which is diminutive of "castrum", which means fort (which is the origin of the "chester" in Manchester, Winchester, Chichester etc. etc.). So since this is the post-roman period when rundown roman forts are becoming medieval settlements or fortified towns, can't we call them castles? The only reason we think of castles as stone is because the stone castles don't decay like wood. The Anglo-saxons had castles of sorts but they built in wood. And even if castles proper are made of stone, the habitable parts of the castle were all made of wood, whether it came to those manning the castle, or those living inside it for protection.

Why are you doing this instead of writing?

The number one rule to writing fiction is never telling anybody about it, since the act of telling is satisfying enough that you may end up putting off or dropping the project entirely.

>getting so triggered by a drawing
Are you Muslim? Have some more haram drawings in that case, then.

I have not been triggered by any picture. I was merely investigating

and may I add I find it sad that you're so ingrained in this internet culture of outrage that one can't even question behaviours that another one percieves as normal without being accused of being "triggered"

do you wish to be the little girl?

Yeah nah, I just ctrl+f'd a pdf of the book and the only time castles are mentioned is in the author commentary section in the back. Were he specifically states that they are nothing like high-medieval castles but made from wood and mud

He has no round table, though his warriors (not knights) would, in Celtic fashion, often
have feasted in a circle on the ground. His castles would have been made of earth and wood, not from
towering and turreted stone, and I doubt, sadly, that any arm clad in white samite, mystic and wonderful,
rose from a misty mere to snatch his sword into eternity, though it is almost certain that the personal
treasures of a great leader would, on his death, be cast into a lake as an offering to the Gods.

>that (fucking disgusting) unrelated anime picture
If that doesn't mean that you were "triggered", it means that you have even serious psychological problems.

Oh jesus, stop. Write about something a little more interesting.

I was, rather calmly and in a pretty untriggered way, saying that I have a personal dislike for the use of anime out of context. Disgusting was a sort of hyperbole on my part, an attempt at being mildly funny you could say

He thinks your a girl.

>You're*
Whoops

There needs to be a writing prompts board for this kind of shit.

It was fine originally, everyone knows you only use "you're" when talking about waifus.

Do you have the Angles and the Saxons as separate groups?