Chapter 1 Scene 5

Back to the Gentlemen Rankers in Deolali for this scene. I've already posted my pics of Kitchener and the ones I have of Deolali itself are not too good.  Here they are anyway, following the link to Google Drive/

Chapter 1 Scene 5 (V1.0)

 I expect that the description of Deolali in my story may not be all that accurate but I haven't been there and, anyway, when it comes down to it I choose story over fact every time - not to the extent it looks obviously wrong but if the reader can be carried past an inaccuracy without noticing, I'm not too worried.

There is a, limit to that though that applies especially to steampunk stories. When you change history because of the steampunk milieu you have adopted; you can't confuse those elements with errors of fact you make because you are too lazy to check facts. That is cheating the reader. The reader has, once you have established your world, to be able to make reasonable predictions as to how it works. Without this your story is built on quicksand..

Aside from all that I was please to see that George MacDonald Fraser - my writing hero - was once based at Deolali - but what British soldier passing in or out of the subcontinent was not?