The Editing Process for Swords of the Realm
The Main thing I’m working on now is more narration and description, I’m a dialog fiend and I like putting the words of what is happening in somebody’s mouth rather than explaining it through exposition. There are things that need narration though, because nobody in the story knows quite everything and I don’t want to clue a character in so that the reader can find out. There are also things that I don’t feel belong in the flow of the story, so I’m footnoting those.
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| 1 | 1 | P | Prologue | 1-10 |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | From Small Stones do Mountains Grow | 11-21 |
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| 1 | 1 | 2 | Change of Command | 22-29 |
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| 1 | 1 | 3 | Conspiracies Imperial | 30-40 |
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| 1 | 1 | 4 | Call to Arms | 41-48 |
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| 1 | 1 | 5 | Two Routes to the Frontier | 49-58 |
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| 1 | 1 | 6 | Explorations | 59-63 |
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| 1 | 1 | 7 | Age | 64-71 |
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| 1 | 1 | 8 | Explorations Interrupted | 72-78 |
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| 1 | 1 | 9 | The Puppeteers | 79-85 |
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| 1 | 1 | 10 | –Need Title– | 86-95 |
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| 1 | 1 | 11 | Let the Game Begin! | 96-103 |
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| 1 | 1 | 12 | Loss | 104-113 |
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| 1 | 2 | 14 | No Place Like Home | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 15 | Marching Orders | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 16 | Message and Messenger | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 17 | The Search | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 18 | Captain Ramon Telbrantil | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 19 | The Battle of Peren Fork | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 21 | The Royal Revolt | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 22 | Gifts and Disappointments | |||||||||
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I was born in the Midwest and grew up in Iowa, Missouri and Texas. I guess you could say I had an eventful childhood, at least it was a helluva lotta fun! I enlisted in the Air Force in 1984 and retired in 2007. I saw a whole bunch of the world and racked up a lot of experiences in the process. Now I'm retired and enjoying life to the fullest!