7-7-7 game

[ritaxis]

So I don't even know where I saw this, but this is the latest version I've seen of "post a bit of your work:" you go to page seven of what you're working on, count down seven lines, and copy the next seven.

This is what I get if I consider the whole novel as one manuscript instead of the various chapters independently:

"I have breeches," Yanek

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[heleninwales]

I'm glad that video was useful. I hadn't watched it since it was on TV ages ago, though I remembered the series as being interesting and probably about the right period for your needs. I must admit, I had totally forgotten about the stooking of the corn.

Of course with modern combine harvesters, they take the grain in straight away, but then it has to be dried artificially before it can be processed.

[heleninwales]

Oh, and in case it matters, hay isn't stooked, it's cut and then left to dry flat. Every day or so it's turned, either manually with a pichfork or with a tractor and what I mentally call a "hay scuffler", though I'm sure it has a proper technical name! When it's dry hay is either baled or (pre-balers) loaded onto a wagon and stacked in haystacks or a hay barn.

[ritaxis]

I was thinking of the flat drying in rows(windrows?) and calling them stooked because I am so unfamiliar with the process that I can't keep anything straight.

I obviously didn't know how much I didn't know, because I thought I had picked up enough from folklore transcriptions and so forth to write the minimum I needed, and then I got some stuff really wrong.

It was the same with the war stuff. I had to rewrite the artillery part a couple of times because of things I learned from new sources.