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work in progress Wednesday
Title: Battle Scars: Men of the CrossCurrent word count 86,895 Per my blog post last week, BS:MotC was shipped to editors. I read 2 new scenes from the novel to my writers group last week. I touched them up after receiving their feedback and inserted them into the mss. over the weekend. Now, truly, truly,…
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first draft off to editors…
I spent Saturday working on the last tweaks to the first draft of Battle Scars. The manuscript has been shipped to editing. Did I mention the sequel? I haven’t touched it since May. I plan to spend a week or two re-reading the 16,000 words I’d written earlier this year. That should get the brain…
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Oxford vacation pictures
Mondays always come too soon. I poured myself into revisions of Battle Scars and had company over the weekend, so I’ll just post a few pictures of Christ Church College at Oxford University this morning. Christ Church wasn’t established until the 1500s, so if Sir Henry passed through the area on his way from Lincolnshire…
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real things, happening to real people…
The photo above in no way implies I’m reading ancient texts. On the other hand, I do consult translations of works from the end of the 12th century! Those works make the history so real. It’s not just the boring dates, name, and places we had to memorize in school. It’s real things, happening to…
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work in progress Wednesday
Thought I’d disappeared, didn’t you? Well…almost. My computer time remains precious and more limited than in the past, so revising the novel is my #1 priority. I also took a few days vacation and attended a conference in Buffalo – revising time suffered. But I wouldn’t trade that vacation or conference for anything. Let me…