Well, “Rebellion” is making progress. It’s changed direction along the way, but then that just means I’ve found a better way to tell the story. Well, that’s my excuse. And I’ve had to do plenty of research, which was a diversion from every day life.
I’ve got as far as the battle of Falkirk Muir, so on our way to Culloden and the final Jacobite defeat. Interestingly, the history gave me an opening for a fictionalised explanation for the failure of the campaign and the failure of the Hanoverian army to effectively quash the rebellion early on.
It’s been fun and I’ve put over 40,000 words under my belt. During the Christmas break I was rattling off a couple of thousand a day. Since work has resumed, it’s slowed down a bit, but I’m aiming to come in around 60,000 – 70,000 words, which will be a similar length to Ransom and be about two hundred pages. That’s plenty, I think.
The end is in sight and I have a nice little twist in the tail planned. My aim is to have this in Leggy’s catalogue sometime in the first quarter of this year. That is all depending on his timescales, of course.