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

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

Shrapnel is one that I certainly woudn't have picked up on and probably only die-hard historical experts would have.
In the first draft of "The Filly" I had the cowboys sitting around the campfire discussing women and mentioning "boobs". One of my family members who I'd let read it said, "Boobs? In the Old West? Boobs makes me think of Hugh Hefner and the playboy mansion." It had never occurred to me that boob was a modern word. I looked it up and found out that in the context of women's breasts it only dates back to 1945!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think that that's another instance of not many people will know and few will care. Not everyone is as obsessed with etymology as I am! :D