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work in progress Wednesday – weddings and signs of The End
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Current word count: @88,900 words I am drawing ever closer to the climax of this story. My unexpected character death? With 11,000 words added since my last update, the man is still dead, and there is no hope for resurrection. But there were weddings this…
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location, location, location – using Pinterest to show Battle Scars locations…
There have been a number of recent articles about writers using Pinterest to promote their interests and their books. I set up a Pinterest account ages ago and let it sit. In random moments I would remember it, add a pin or two, then sock it away for a few months. If you’ve been following…
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work in progress Wednesday – character deaths and spies…
Title: Battle Scars:For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Current word count: @77,800 words There’s been a tragedy. Not the one where I deleted my Scrivener file and nearly lost 54,000 words.¹ No, the tragedy is the death of a character I wasn’t expecting to kill off. I’d planned a different character death but the…
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Medieval fun facts…
On names… “When Henry the young King held court in Normandy at Christmas 1171, the guests supposedly included 110 knights named ‘William’.” The most common names in English society by 1225 were William, Robert, Richard, Roger, and Hugh. (Contrast that with a May 2013 list: Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah, William. 842 years & William is…
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work in progress Wednesday – and we’re off to Nottingham!
Well, Nottingham and a few other locales… If I’d been on top of things a few days back, I would have mentioned that 7 September was the anniversary of the Battle of Arsuf in 1191. This was a huge victory for Richard the Lionheart. Arsuf is about 14 miles from the port of Jaffa, a…
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september 1190: volcano sightings
In a previous post, I described the state of Richard’s fleet & rules & regs for the crews. It wasn’t common to sail the open sea in the 12th century. For the most part, the fleet paralleled the coasts and island-hopped. King Richard frequently went ashore and rode his horse as his fleet skirted the…
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work in progress Wednesday – a little Robin Hood
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series) Current word count: @39,000 words Last week, I wrote the first of many scenes that will take place in Nottingham in the years 1193-1194. The scene features one of my important secondary characters, Robin du Chinon (later changed to du Louviers), aka Robert Carpenter.…