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]

And I'm lucky my editor noticed the "right flank" thing. She's gooood. She didn't spot the shrapnel error, but she's not a historical person,so she's forgived.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

This is the kind of thing it's so hard to find when you read it over yourself - because you can picture the right thing - and it's so easy for another set of eyes to catch, because the other person is thinking, "I just can't picture this."