Thursday, March 22, 2018

Chapter Struck

As in Thunderstruck ...

Yesterday we took a full 5,000 words out of World War 1990: The Battle of the Polish Plain. This chapter showed General Franks, VII Corps and their maneuvers, including a skirmish that balloons into a Kursk like tank battle. I found it to be completely inadequate in relation to what we've been working on the last month or so.

This chapter was written over a year ago when we were still dealing with a 90,000 word behemoth and as such lacked detail and context. As noted before that book is now broken in two, leaving space to redo the chapter with more detail.

By the way, we have a great resource on Franks and we really weren't making us of it:

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