I haven't been so good at this...
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kittygambleProject: Susie and Percy
Market: Whoever wants it
Deadline: (Self-imposed) July 31
Word Count: 65709
Mean things: Family disproval, class barriers.
Fun things: Georgian chancery law, bits of household stuff.
Research: Many things. List of cases decided in the court of chancery in 1807 proving IMPOSSIBLE to find, yet there are reports from every year after about 1813. NOT HELPFUL, google books. Also yesterday I looked up inns in Abbotsbury, the town that I've set Susie in. Need to research further how far a stage coach might have taken Percy, but I couldn't find anything last night.
So I started this a while ago, and the first 40k words literally flew out onto the page. I wrote that amount in three weeks. Then I realised the conflict wasn't working right, and I needed to restructure a bit. That's what I've been doing now and I'm more or less done with that. I'm in the final stretch, too, they're almost married and then there's just his family coming around to write. The end of July is (I hope) very, very doable.
The law reports are bugging me. They exist for the years I want them, but not on google books. I just need to know when it's likely my main character argued his first case. I have one set for July, which the real life mentor I gave him argues so I'll go with that.
The Ship Inn is probably what is now the Ilchester Arms. The Swan didn't exist as far as I can tell, so I'm going with that. I just glossed over the transport until I get a better idea of how it worked.
Finally feel like I'm getting there, though.
Market: Whoever wants it
Deadline: (Self-imposed) July 31
Word Count: 65709
Mean things: Family disproval, class barriers.
Fun things: Georgian chancery law, bits of household stuff.
Research: Many things. List of cases decided in the court of chancery in 1807 proving IMPOSSIBLE to find, yet there are reports from every year after about 1813. NOT HELPFUL, google books. Also yesterday I looked up inns in Abbotsbury, the town that I've set Susie in. Need to research further how far a stage coach might have taken Percy, but I couldn't find anything last night.
So I started this a while ago, and the first 40k words literally flew out onto the page. I wrote that amount in three weeks. Then I realised the conflict wasn't working right, and I needed to restructure a bit. That's what I've been doing now and I'm more or less done with that. I'm in the final stretch, too, they're almost married and then there's just his family coming around to write. The end of July is (I hope) very, very doable.
The law reports are bugging me. They exist for the years I want them, but not on google books. I just need to know when it's likely my main character argued his first case. I have one set for July, which the real life mentor I gave him argues so I'll go with that.
The Ship Inn is probably what is now the Ilchester Arms. The Swan didn't exist as far as I can tell, so I'm going with that. I just glossed over the transport until I get a better idea of how it worked.
Finally feel like I'm getting there, though.
