After working for weeks now on the second draft, I now know how long it really takes to work through it.  Silly me thought I could do it in a week or two.

The good news is I’m more than halfway done with that, and am plugging on toward the end.  ’Twill soon be done.

As an aside, I was intending to post some of the research material that went into this first book, which is, as you would know if you read the About the Story page, set in Victorian times.  Quite a few books detail this era, and innumerable works of fiction also come from then.  It can be safely said that there is plenty of material to read.

Here’s the main group of books and resources I used:

• Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography (’cause it’s all about London)
• Judith Flanders’ Inside the Victorian Home
• Daniel Pool’s What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
• Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (for all the orphan scenes)
• Divided by a Common Language (to get all those English slang words just right)
• Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (’cause it’s funny)
• The Dictionary of Victorian London (where Lee Jackson has kindly done all the work for me)
• The Victorian Web (good for a general overview, and some good pics)
• Shakespeare Search (’cause I’m too lazy to read all the plays again)
• And of course, Bible Gateway, the Word at your fingertips

I know there were other things that contributed, most notably movies and other things I’ve googled and forgotten, but that’s the core of it.

I’m a little worried about having enough material for the second book, which takes place a little earlier.  I won’t reveal too much about that, though.

Also, great stuff being posted on Michael Hyatt’s site:  this one, for example.