I've had the same issue with my own WIP, albeit not for any sort of dragonkind Police force, but I did build a medieval style police force. I had to do a bit of research for this. In summary...
What should police officers be called instead of police officers?
Depends on which part of the world...
Last night I had a weird dream.
I found a friend asleep encased in glass in a cellar after he had gone missing for some time. I woke him up with a little difficulty and he stepped through the glass a little annoyed about being woken up so early. He said, 'I'm sleeping into the future. I found...
I think voice, is more than that. It's not just about the author, and has a lot to do with the POV character. To illustrate...
I read Joe Abercrombies 'The Heroes'. What struck me is that each chapter sounds different when shifting POV. Each character has their own voice, distinctive from the...
I remember one dream... more of a glance at something.
A man in a coat, or a blacksmith's type of apron, (I don't really remember) was standing at work bench with all sorts of tools over it. He glanced at me, and suddenly he wasn't a man at all, but some sort of demon with big pointy teeth and...
1) 11th century is the early medieval era, and is pretty much the Norman era. So it would have been chain mail hauberks made of iron, and other bits - like wrist guards - made of leather, iron helmets with that distinctive nose guard in place, wooden shields.
2) Iron, bronze, leather
3) No...
Make bullet points, notes, place holders in brief for what has to happen... then move on to whatever is calling out to be written. I can always go back at another time, when the block has passed.
I often find in redrafting that something that needs to change will force changes elsewhere in the novel. Changes are like threads that untangle or tie up bits, except the threads sometimes stretch throughout the book.
I find that making lists of issues by chapter helps a great deal before...
Wikipedia has a list of events that happened in each year. Here's 1890-1892. Just search for say 1893 United Kingdom, and the search engines will pull them up on a year by year basis.
1890 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
1891 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
1892 in the United Kingdom -...