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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 9, 2015 15:05:15 GMT -5
Clearly I have enough material for several more books here.
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Post by Dub on Oct 9, 2015 15:14:48 GMT -5
We're glad to help.
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Post by millring on Oct 9, 2015 15:36:59 GMT -5
False flag conspiracies are really big right now. Probably in the 18th century too. I'd write the Culper Ring into the sequel.
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Post by Doug on Oct 9, 2015 15:53:14 GMT -5
Bullwhips gotta have a bullwhip duel. Oh and Tang gotta have Tang.
How about Donald Trump you could have Trump's great great grandfather swept overboard from his canoe by the 800 ft tidal wave.
Hey you could even put Dub in it. Just ask him what things were happening back then, he will remember.
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Post by theevan on Oct 9, 2015 16:14:28 GMT -5
If I may but Vouchfafe to Thee e'en a lone "idee fixe", I woulde be mofte pleafed to fhare the fame withe Thee ere the golden Funne departe 'low yon fhore. Alaf, I be berefte of faide Idees.
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Post by theevan on Oct 9, 2015 16:18:49 GMT -5
Why, Deare Fir, didfst Thou naughte incloode more Famoufe Peoplef in thy Writingf? Albert Einftein, or Miff Ciffy Fpacek, or Jean Lafitte mighte have mayde additionfe of Fpecile Intrereft.
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Post by theevan on Oct 9, 2015 16:20:28 GMT -5
Thy foe aboard Fchooner Fhippe maye have been Darthe Vayderre for all we know.
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Post by epaul on Oct 9, 2015 17:00:44 GMT -5
I would resurrect Noah as a sardonic ghost, a detached observer and commentator on all things colonial; Harry' sidekick. Mr. Outside to Harry's Mr. Inside.
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Post by factorychef on Oct 9, 2015 17:24:23 GMT -5
More color pictures.
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Post by drlj on Oct 9, 2015 17:48:33 GMT -5
Here is a thought. Instead of Constable, let's go with sheriff. We set the sheriff, a wise and folkie kind of guy in a small town in the south. Not the far south but say, maybe, one of the Carolinas. We add a bit of comedy to it, but keep the idea of the story as giving life lessons. Honesty, respect, appreciation of nature. That kind of stuff. Make the sheriff a bachelor. No. Wait, let's make him a widower with a small child to raise. Maybe have an aunt living there helping to raise the boy. Keep the town charming but add in a host of mildly wacky residents. A town drunk, maybe. A shop keeper. A well meaning but slightly out of control assistant. Make him a deputy sheriff. Wow. This is all just coming to me so fast. I am going to go write this down. This is going to be big!
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Post by brucemacneill on Oct 9, 2015 18:25:57 GMT -5
Here is a thought. Instead if Constable, let's go with sheriff. We set the sheriff, a wise and folkie kind of guy in a small town in the south. Not the far south but say, maybe, one of the Carolinas. We add a bit of comedy to it, but keep the idea of the story as giving life lessons. Honesty, respect, appreciation of nature. That kind of stuff. Make the sheriff a bachelor. No. Wait, let's make him a widower with a small child to raise. Maybe have an aunt living there helping to raise the boy. Keep the town charming but add in a host of mildly wacky residents. A town drunk, maybe. A shop keeper. A well meaning but slightly out of control assistant. Make him a deputy sheriff. Wow. This is all just coming to me so fast. I am going to go write this down. This is going to be big! Try whistling while you work on it.
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Post by drlj on Oct 9, 2015 19:45:20 GMT -5
I am going to head down to the fishin' hole and think this out. I hope I can catch a bass and I am earnest about it to a T.
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Post by theevan on Oct 9, 2015 20:41:44 GMT -5
I am going to head down to the fishin' hole and think this out. I hope I can catch a bass and I am earnest about it to a T. Dear Firre, an earnefte defirre for baff, whethere poachede in the mannere of yon French or burnt in the mannere of Foutheren Cittivenf, is eafilee underftood by all Perfonfe who hath fo partaken.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 9, 2015 21:07:56 GMT -5
It'd be pretty cool if, when Harry boards a ship, if the yeoman purser's name was Gopher and put his horse in the stall while a young woman named Julie showed Harry to his bunk.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 9, 2015 21:15:11 GMT -5
I want to read this book. I have to finish The Martian first, and then there's another that I forget the name of, but after that, I think I'll read The Constable's Tale. But I'm more than just a little bit worried that it will cause me to talk funny.
I know, I know, you don't talk funny. You think I talk funny. Well, you're wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2015 18:10:01 GMT -5
Can you please write the sequel with a British accent? Oh, and use "bugger" and "I say" a few times for authenticity.
On a serious note, I really have to get this book and read it. My reading time is consumed with that stuff I'm teaching now, so I'll have to work it in on the margins.
Lastly, if you put out a Cliffs Notes version, instead of the $50 Peter suggested, can you include a peanut butter Clif Bar? The marketing synergy would be, like, awesome, and stuff.
::nods::
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 10, 2015 18:43:29 GMT -5
I'm thinking a Fabio type character would add a lot of interest. But just bring him into the story out of nowhere and kill him off in the same chapter so the reader is all like "WTF was that???"
Another thing that would be cool is a talking horse, but make it like K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. Real sarcastic and droll. Or maybe make it a really horny horse that is always running after every cute filly on the road. Yes, I know the horse in the story was a mare. That's another thing that has got to change. Actually, maybe tell the whole story from the horse's perspective. Call the sequel "The Constable's Horse's Tail". See what I did there?
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 10, 2015 21:24:18 GMT -5
I think Harry should be more like Natty Bumppo. Have him step on more twigs.
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Post by epaul on Oct 10, 2015 22:11:24 GMT -5
Natty was his grandpappy.
(by fond allusion if not in deed)
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 10, 2015 22:21:50 GMT -5
I think Harry should be more like Natty Bumppo. Have him step on more twigs. I have a little homage to twig-snapping in there. Hint: it's along toward the end.
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