Out-of-office replies
White people with dreadlocks
The Tragically Hip
Characters that make Star Wars references
Post-it notes
Arts funding bodies
Escalators
More than one fat person
Things you shouldn’t put in an historical novel (or any novel for that matter)
Any description of a piece of clothing that runs to more than twenty-five words
A lighthouseReference to physiognomy
A romance between an upper class woman and a lower class man
A romance between an upper class man and a lower class woman
The construction, ‘like so many…’ (as in: ‘all of those politicians that you carry around in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes’)
‘Milady’A character that turns out to be a famous historical figure at the end of the book
Things that should be in every historical novel
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| A coracle (entirely too well-made for the purposes of my kind of historical fiction) |
Someone with an eyepatch
An elaborately carved walking stick
Cruelty to children
More than one dark-skinned character
A disgusting meal
A simile involving wolves
The construction of a coracle
Birds
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