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Month: November 2020

A navy bankrupt
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 28, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged Pirates, Privateers, Prizes at sea, Royal Navy, Stuart kings

A navy bankrupt

The overriding impression one gets from proper research of the navy of the Stuart period is that it was bankrupt, even during the Republic. There were ships kept at sea to avoid having to pay […]

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The Highlanders at Cairndhu
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 25, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged Bonnie Prince Charlie, Eilean Donan Castle, Finding Historical story lines, Glen Coe, Historical fiction

The Highlanders at Cairndhu

While I’m busy with N.A.M. Rodgers naval histories around the Jacobite period, I need to start thinking of what the end will be – just an interest, or the basis for some stories. The first […]

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During the Jacobites
Books / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 21, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged American History, Canada, dalton, Finding Historical story lines, Historical fiction

During the Jacobites

I don’t know what I would do without N. A. M. Roger and his books like, The Safeguard of the Seas and The Command of the Seas. They are so thoroughly researched with details of […]

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Exploration by the wind
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 19, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged Ancient knowledge, dalton, Exploration, Natural navigation, Natural signs

Exploration by the wind

Modern historians seem to assume that deep water navigation is a recent invention and until it’s mathematical problems had been solved it was impossible to undertake an ocean voyage. I had a lesson in basic […]

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Voyages of discovery?
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 14, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged Americas, Columbus, dalton, Historical fiction, Historical research

Voyages of discovery?

Scottish fishermen being in the Arctic ocean at the time of the Reformation between the time of Henry VIII and Good Queen Bess has stirred a bee in my bonnet. I’ve felt for some time […]

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The Scottish fishermen and Ivan the Terrible
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton
  • November 11, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged Cabot, Exploration, Ivan the Terrible, North West Passage, Scottish History

The Scottish fishermen and Ivan the Terrible

I had just settled back to the Stuarts when my local Writers’ Group decided the months task would be a letter that changed the World. Naturally I looked over Bonnie Prince Charlie and his antecedents […]

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Keeping the reader on side
Books / Character Development / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 9, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged dalton, Narrator, Point of View, Reader involvement, Writing rukes

Keeping the reader on side

 I’ve been editing a novel I wrote some time ago about a Highland drover sorting out the point of view for each scene and chapter. I’d thought it wasn’t to important compared with the story […]

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So you want John Wayne
Books / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 6, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged Bonnie Prince Charlie, dalton, Highland stories, Historical fiction, John Wayne

So you want John Wayne

I’ve been belabouring Bonnie Prince Charlie and it’s taking me away from my objective of sea stories, so I need to stop. Just one last comment. Someone asked me if I could do a John […]

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Up to Culloden
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 4, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged Historical fiction, Jacobites, Lowlands, Scottish History, Story lines

Up to Culloden

 I watched Neil Oliver again and while admitting he was talking of the clans at the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebellion, I notice the comment that Charlie lost about a third of his ‘army’ […]

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Disaster management
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • November 1, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged Disaster management, Planning a novel, short story writing

Disaster management

 I’m in the middle of making a wardrobe. I could have got one in flat pack but I wanted it to fit the space I had for it. I knew what I was doing, just […]

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