Recent content by Gurkhal

I don't know how practical it is but one suggestion I would say is this. Do a quick and easy "research", like Wikipedia and such, and write your outline and a very general draft for the story. Historically it will be horrible but you've got text on the document and you know where you want to...

My best suggestion is to avoid long sentences with detailed descriptions. It draws down the tempo of the action. I've seen this many times in professional publishing and I cry a little blood every time I see it.

I agree with the other posters in that switching between first and third person POV would put me off. But then again I dislike first person POV in general so that choice would put me off anyhow. Thus I may not be the targeted audience for your book. But those are my thoughts on the matter anyway.

Since they all have parts of myself in them I think I would enjoy meeting them and hanging out for a bit. After all, when you talk to yourself you get the best answers, so I imagine this would be like that but ten times the better! :LOL:

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I know that I should not have done this, but I did it anyway. I got "How to be a Victorian" by Ruth Goodman and the manuals of manners and politeness for gentlemen and ladies by Cecil and Florence Hartley, respectively, from 1860. I'm really looking forward to read these.

I'm late to the party but congrats on finishing it, awesome done!

Against my better judgement I got "The Campaign in Thrace" by P Howell (I don't know what the "P" stands for...) which is about the First Balkan War. Next time I buy something should be to Christmas and be mostly focused on fiction as opposed to non-fiction books. Maybe the entire Sharpe series ;).

Not at all strange. It may be uncommon or rare but that's different than strange.

I also save a ton of files with different versions as I progress. My system is that I use the title and then a number for the version. So its X 1, then X 2 and so on. If I only do a minor revision or addition it might be called X 1.1 or something with the file with the highest number being the...

An excellent idea which I can recommend. I do it all the time since my thoughts are almost always moving between ideas.

I can't say that I've had those. I have had some that needed significant thinking over and so before I can be put to on the page but I don't think I've ever had any that I felt were too silly to write at all.

If you have time you might want to look into historical fiction as that's stories in a non-modern setting, like most fantasy, and which is devoid of magic for the plot and still have plots that work, also without magic, perfectly good.

Since I'm aiming for a setting which can sustain several stories I am going for a pretty extensive world building right now.

And one final batch before its all over until Christmas. I hope...fingers crossed. Four books in the "Medieval Lives series": The Troubadours (I've long been interested in medieval Occitania), The Medieval Horse, Thomas Becket and His World and Eleanor of Aquitaine. And the book "Sword...