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Apr. 1st, 2013 09:13 pmProject: Victorious War, Beauty Ashore
Market: Storm Moon Press
Deadline: July 31
Present total wordcount: 14,614
Mean things: A lot of the edits I had to make were changing it from summer to April, and so there was a lot of mentions of the difference in temperature.
Fun things: A title drop! I'm happy with how I worked that in. I may have made it too cold, but it gives more of an excuse for CUDDLING, which is fun. (also it's April now and FREEZING here so I feel justified).
Research: ALL OF THE THINGS. I had a giant list of things I made a note of to check, so that was mostly what I did today.
This weekend, I edited and included opening and closing bits to all the scenes I'd just left with a (start this) or (end). Today, I researched!
Here's what I researched and fit in today, in between general editing.
- Inns in Great Yarmouth
- They did go to Great Yarmouth, didn't they? WHERE DID I READ THAT I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE.
- Oh. Found it. The wounded went there, and the Monarch and the Isis brought them home. Okay.
- Ship building in Great Yarmouth, to see if it was possible for the repairs to happen there. It was! Phew.
- Where did the wounded go? Naval Hospital was slightly after my time, so I had to ferret it out. It was the barracks, okay.
- Where in the Indies could they have had fun cliff adventuresthat isn't Santo Domingo? St Lucia, a colony that went back and fort between French and British control around this time. No dates mentioned, so I have wiggle room. Awesome.
- A ship name. I had to have an idea for that and then check there wasn't a ship called that. Success.
- Naval toasts! It was an informal dinner between friends, so I played with it a bit. It had to happen in the room, because it led to an epic flirty moment. But it worked.
- Oh, for the toast I needed a day of the week for it to happen on, which meant I needed a plausible date. I can't find a date for when the Isis/Monarch arrived in the town, except that it was after the 15th/16th because it was an express from London that came with the news of the battle to Great Yarmouth. So it was to an 1801 calendar for that, and I just guessed how long it would take given the time it took them to sail TO Copenhagen and various other journey times, and bearing in mind how damaged the ships were. The dinner happened on a Thursday, which gave me a brilliant lead in.
... and there was more, but they were small things so I can't remember. I also read a lot about the history of words for penis, which wasn't technically research but was also very interesting.
But it's a second draft, yay. I needed to get it done today because I can't edit while at work, so I can go back to the novel during the week, and do another pass at it next weekend. It's close, though. Yay!
Market: Storm Moon Press
Deadline: July 31
Present total wordcount: 14,614
Mean things: A lot of the edits I had to make were changing it from summer to April, and so there was a lot of mentions of the difference in temperature.
Fun things: A title drop! I'm happy with how I worked that in. I may have made it too cold, but it gives more of an excuse for CUDDLING, which is fun. (also it's April now and FREEZING here so I feel justified).
Research: ALL OF THE THINGS. I had a giant list of things I made a note of to check, so that was mostly what I did today.
This weekend, I edited and included opening and closing bits to all the scenes I'd just left with a (start this) or (end). Today, I researched!
Here's what I researched and fit in today, in between general editing.
- Inns in Great Yarmouth
- They did go to Great Yarmouth, didn't they? WHERE DID I READ THAT I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE.
- Oh. Found it. The wounded went there, and the Monarch and the Isis brought them home. Okay.
- Ship building in Great Yarmouth, to see if it was possible for the repairs to happen there. It was! Phew.
- Where did the wounded go? Naval Hospital was slightly after my time, so I had to ferret it out. It was the barracks, okay.
- Where in the Indies could they have had fun cliff adventures
- A ship name. I had to have an idea for that and then check there wasn't a ship called that. Success.
- Naval toasts! It was an informal dinner between friends, so I played with it a bit. It had to happen in the room, because it led to an epic flirty moment. But it worked.
- Oh, for the toast I needed a day of the week for it to happen on, which meant I needed a plausible date. I can't find a date for when the Isis/Monarch arrived in the town, except that it was after the 15th/16th because it was an express from London that came with the news of the battle to Great Yarmouth. So it was to an 1801 calendar for that, and I just guessed how long it would take given the time it took them to sail TO Copenhagen and various other journey times, and bearing in mind how damaged the ships were. The dinner happened on a Thursday, which gave me a brilliant lead in.
... and there was more, but they were small things so I can't remember. I also read a lot about the history of words for penis, which wasn't technically research but was also very interesting.
But it's a second draft, yay. I needed to get it done today because I can't edit while at work, so I can go back to the novel during the week, and do another pass at it next weekend. It's close, though. Yay!
