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Timeless classics of you ask me. Good choice!

And faithful to my bad habits I "only one more" book. This time its "The First Holstein-Schleswig War 1848-1850" by Nick Svendsen. Its part of the "From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914" series which I'm a bit curious about. So this is a kind of test to see if the series is any good and worth something...

I also added "Down and out in late Meiji Japan". I don't have a baguette for Japan but I find the Meiji period fairly interesting, even if its not a favorite, and this social history book is one that I've been looking at for some time.

I think I'll make a change. A change to splurge a little every month to prevent a dam bursting by trying to hold out for the rest of the entire year. Anyway "How to read a dress" and "How to read a suite" by Lydia Edwards. Its fashion history but knowing how my characters actually dress and...

I would say from personal experience of my own writing in that when you world build instead of writing the story you set out to write, its too much.

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...