Off-Brand Nano Update #3
I finally spent some time researching Napoleonic era warfare and cavalry because I reached the chapters where the war actually starts and like I would have to write battle scenes. I'm not super interested in war history, which is why I had put that off, but it was more interesting than I expected! I found the perfect very 2005-core website with all the information I need and more. I could kiss on the mouth the nerd who made it. Unfortunately it was very illuminating and now I have many ideas on how to make the worldbuilding and the beginning of Valeri's storyline stronger. So I started his storyline again. I removed around 11K words :') Well, not actually in reality, I'll still be able to use many of the passages and some scenes fully, so I'll quickly catch up to my earlier word count. I already wrote 679 words.
I did reach my weakly goal on the time spend on writing (in Thursday so at the end of the first week I had written for 9h 25 mins)! I included the research and worldbuilding and replanning of Valeri's early storyline, which amounted to 5 hours in total.
Words written: 679 Current word count: 5 937 (-11 089) Time written: 10h 25m
I won't give a new excerpt since I have written very little actual words to the manuscript after the last update, but here's a new uniform I drew for Valeri to figure that out. For context the old uniform is the second drawing.
The old uniform on the right is still the uniform of the heavy cavalry, but I did learn about the different kinds of cavalry, and decided Valeri is light/medium cavalry. Valeri is an íochair, a cavalry class originating from Cabalusia, and their uniform is also based on the traditional gear of the Cerfi horsemen.
