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revisions, round 4…
Title: Battle Scars: Men of the Cross(book 1 of a series) Revisions progress: round 4, 95% Two weeks back, I reported I was at 73%. That was round 3. 🙂 I returned to page 1 and began round 4. Actually, I ignored page 1 and started with chapter 2. This was to be a quick run-through…
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crossing the Plains…
The Plains of Ramla that is… Title:Battle Scars: Men of the Cross(book 1 of a series) Revisions progress: 73% Richard the Lionheart’s army crossed the Plains of Ramla (or Ramula) twice: Nov. 1191-Jan. 1192, and again in the late spring of 1192. Chroniclers mention the severe weather that winter. The crusaders endured rain, hail, gale-strength winds,…
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work in progress Wednesday…
Just a short update this week because revisions are keeping me busy. I passed the 50% mark at 7am today. Acre has surrendered to Richard the Lionheart. The army is making ready to march south along the coast. I wish I could say it’s all downhill from here but there are many battle scenes or…
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gambling & the Third Crusade
Title:Battle Scars: Men of the Cross(book 1 of a series) Revisions progress: 33% Three weeks in and I’m 1/3 through round one of revisions on my manuscript. Sir Henry & Sir Stephan have been on the move since their first meeting in Southampton in March of 1190. They caught up with Richard the Lionheart’s army…
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4 day break!
Happy Thanksgiving! (almost) What’s on the menu for my 4 day break? 1) Turkey and trimmings with my daughter and her husband in Kansas City. 2) I will skip the Black Friday events. I shop when I need something, not because of sales. The mad frenzy doesn’t invigorate me. And I’m not a browser. I…
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work in progress Wednesday… The End
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Word count: @109,780 words It is done.THE END. Time to rest, but only for a few days. I’ll start revisions to Book 1 this weekend. I haven’t looked at Men of the Cross since mid-August, except to share the opening with my MOOC classmates in Plagues, Witches,…
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and the elevator door closes…
Writer Matthew Harffy is ahead of me. On his blog, Bernicia Chronicles, he writes that he’s completed revisions on his Dark Ages novel and has sent it out out for another round of beta readers. His decision to do a ‘pitch’ at a conference inspired me to start thinking about how I might pitch Battle…
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almost there… work in progress Wednesday
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Current word count: @96,500 words The writing of the most recent 8,000 words has been like pulling teeth. I want them to be good – well, I want the whole book to be good – but as I close in on the climax, my goal…
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Nottingham Castle
“Richard arrived at the siege of Nottingham in a black mood and his first act was to set up an enormous gallows beneath the walls.”— Richard Coeur de Lion by P. Henderson I am mere paragraphs away from writing the opening scene as King Richard arrives at Nottingham Castle with knights Henry and Stephan. I…