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Even 10 pages in manuscript font? That's only 2,000 words.

I am not disagreeing with you. But, when I see my first chapter, it takes about 6 pages (manuscript font) before the "event that changes history" takes place.

Then again... in the first line, I introduce the 18th North Carolina and my targeted audience pretty much knows who will be riding down the path at any moment...so maybe that is enough to hold their attention until Jackson arrives.

[carton253]

I must discipline myself and do my Arabic.

Talk amongst yourselves while I am gone. :>)

I hope to have to read 100 posts before I return.

Good night. (I am in Israel so I am 7 hours ahead of you all on the east coast)

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That’s historical writing. Very different genre than fiction. Historical facts can’t be made up, they are already recorded. Fiction on the other hand is only limited by ones imagination with a few facts for believability on certain aspects. ie: weather, age of maggots determining approximate time of death, autopsies. Things like that.