Well, here we are, planning to start The Bastard's Conquest in two weeks and we realize we haven't done any thinking about our main character.
We know he becomes one of the Bastard's troubleshooters and have a vague idea what he does from the years 1066-1069. Lot's of action there.
He's a Norman but other than that we know little about him. Did he get along with his folks? Does he like William the Bastard? For that matter what kind of knight is he? Are we talking about a man escaping his past? Maybe a rogue in the tradition of Harry Flashman? A man trying to do right?
We have no idea.
As noted before the way we usually get our novels mapped out is to sit around and think about them. One can almost feel the fire brewing, the burst of energy. We usually refer to the process as percolation.
Whatever one calls it we better get going.
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