I got more work done on "The Linen Butterfly" last night than I have all the rest of this year!

I moved some scenes around, added a couple others, and made a few fixes on the overall continuity.

I still have one or two more scenes to add and one to completely rewrite. The ending battle sequence is going to have to be longer, more epic, and will change the order of events somewhat. Without spoiling it too much, I will say that fully intend to have Faol Carrick cross swords with Virgil Dol in the showdown I should have had in the first draft.

After all of my large-scale edits I want to go back through the text with a fine-toothed comb and pick out all the continuity errors, clumsy prose, and places where more details are needed. Right now a lot of the new scenes I've added have just been sort of rought-drafted in place and I expect I'll be working a while on getting all the pieces polished into a smooth, complete manuscript.

In particular, I want to rework any and all of the fight scenes with some details gleaned from HEMA websites. I'm especially interested in historical sword techniques and I really want that to show in my work. There's a bit of it in "The Vimana Incident" (I make references to Oakeshott typology and Talhoffer) but I'd like to make it more obvious in this one.

The overall tone of the book might descend somewhat into self-parody but that's deliberate; "The Goldenlea" had some moments that were just too forced to be taken seriously and I want this to be a sort of epic breakdown of that perfect, hermetically-sealed world. I don't want to make it a total send-up, but I don't want it to take itself too seriously either; that was the mistake I made with the first one.