Edit schmedit.

[erastes]

It's moving along, but gah! the mistakes one finds !!

I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's.  Idiot!

Only if

1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR

2. They were both facing in the same direction.

*kicks self*

I also mention SHRAPNEL.  Yeah. In 1642.  Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.

It's a worry!

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, they had cannons - the chinese had cannons hundreds of years before they made it over here - but I had to use the words "broken cannons" rather than shrapnel.

I seem to read now with an anachronistic beacon on most of the time - one can't catch them all though. I'm quite sure that some English Civil War buff will email me and tell me that I was DOING IT WRONG.

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Wow. You're a very brave soul. That's why, so far, I've only written one historical short story.