I hadn’t planned to do the Challenge this year, after a lot of confusion last year over how to find anything on their spreadsheet, but I decided to have a go anyway, as it makes me write something every day, and last year I did find some enjoyable new blogs and excellent bloggers to follow. This year I will visit some blogs and comment at least once. Likewise, I will visit the blog of anyone who comments here.
So, this year’s theme is the Arthurian legend. I am a huge fan of things Arthurian. I’ve read a lot of books, from mediaeval poems to modern novels, over the years. Arthur was the subject of my English Honours thesis, way back when, the title “Arthur: From Epic Hero To Master Of Ceremonies In Middle English Literature.” I’ve written some Arthurian tales myself, some of them published and two still awaiting a market. One of those is a novella I wrote last year, on the theme of “Sir Gawain And The Green Knight”. The trouble is, hardly anyone these days is buying novella length fiction, and the market for which I wrote it was only taking urban fantasy. My own fault for not noticing that bit of the blurb, but there is a story now, which I would never have written if I had paid attention! Anyway, there will be a post about “Gawain And The Green Knight.”
I will also be mentioning some of my favourite modern authors of this kind of fiction, so watch this space!
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So, this year’s theme is the Arthurian legend. I am a huge fan of things Arthurian. I’ve read a lot of books, from mediaeval poems to modern novels, over the years. Arthur was the subject of my English Honours thesis, way back when, the title “Arthur: From Epic Hero To Master Of Ceremonies In Middle English Literature.” I’ve written some Arthurian tales myself, some of them published and two still awaiting a market. One of those is a novella I wrote last year, on the theme of “Sir Gawain And The Green Knight”. The trouble is, hardly anyone these days is buying novella length fiction, and the market for which I wrote it was only taking urban fantasy. My own fault for not noticing that bit of the blurb, but there is a story now, which I would never have written if I had paid attention! Anyway, there will be a post about “Gawain And The Green Knight.”
I will also be mentioning some of my favourite modern authors of this kind of fiction, so watch this space!
10 comments:
Oh, that's a great theme! Looking forward to your posts!
Thanks, Deniz! Are you participating too?
This sounds like a fun challenge. It is really cool that you have written some Athurian tales yourself.
Thanks, Brian! I’m just writing A is for Arthur now.
Oooh, I like Arthurian. Looking forward to reading your posts, Sue.
I'm not A-Zing this year. I was away over Feb/March and I need to be able to pre-schedule all the posts so I'm taking a break for this one. Although I did come up with an idea for a theme - I'll just have to shelve it for next year :)
Thanks, Anita, hope you enjoy this. Nothing wrong with sitting back and enjoying other people’s stuff for a while.
I'm playing A to Z catch-up today as getting way behind - even got unread theme reveals, Anyway, I've been reading Arthurian tales since my childhood - I still have my copy of A.M Hadfield's King Arthur and the Round Table, which my Great Aunt gave me when I was seven (1960). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22329957-king-arthur
I've kept coming back to Arthur, whether reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon or learning about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in my teens, thus discover Professor J R R Tolkien.
Looking forward to you A to Z posts, Sue.
Hi Roland! I haven’t heard of the Hadfield book, but it must have been aimed at children. Did it have illustrations? I do love Arthurian art.
I’m not a great fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s book, though it’s supposed to be one of the classics. I hate what she did to Arthur in that book. I did quite like the idea of Merlin as a title, though not his name, Kevin!
Ye, I believe it did. My wife has to get it from the bookshelf for me so I'm guessing. Sorry. Goodreads says, "...Enhanced by the Howard Pyle illustrations..."
Ah, Howard Pyle! Wow!
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