I love research! It is my favorite hobby!
I often will research random topics just cuz!
Today though I have a use for my research. I am working On my book. So i am looking up my favorite City in history! Deir el-Madina… It was the city of the people who built the tombs in the valley of the Kings of Ancient Egypt. This city has fascinated me my whole life. These were the hardest working free men and women of Egypt’s long history and the city is as old as the valley of the kings. I have often dreamed of what it must have been like to be a young woman in this place with long work hours and hot weather. Although i know it must have been hard and often deadly i for some reason envied theses people.
I have always said hard work is good for the soul, and I stand by that. When ever I am working and i feel that i am to tired and can not finish what i am doing i always picture a young girl walking the long road from Dier el-Madina to work at some form of art in the tombs. This for some reason has given me strength as long as I can remember. In my life i have made up a life for this girl, and changed her job many times. I have always had the same name for her though… Nitimai… She is the real inspiration for my book. She is my inspiration in so many ways…
I realize she is fiction, i realize this woman never walked that path i see in my mind, but yet i feel she is very real inside me. I have never really told anyone about her. I have never told anyone the strength she gives me. In her own way she has saved me, and kept me going… For her who never lived is for who i write my book… to give Nitiami a real voice…
Ok now i know you wonder what dose this have to do with my book… I will give you a hint, but not a big one cuz it would be a spoiler….
Naomi is Nitimai

