I deleted that scene I was talking about yesterday. And I followed up and changed the references to it. So that means it's ready for submission. Meaning if any agent or publisher were to request the full, it's ready to send. Does that mean it's a finished work? No. I'm sure to reread it over and over again, and every time I do I'm sure to make more revisions. But at this point, I believe those revisions will only be in the polishing of the prose. No more significant story changes. I think all the scenes that are in there now will remain in there, and I don't think I'll be adding any additional scenes.
There were a couple other scenes that happened in real life that I might have put in there. There was the fight between two Zulu regiments that Dunn witnessed firsthand which killed about 75 Zulus. And there was an event involving a Zulu chieftain and gun registration, where he refused to do it, then fled, killed three white policemen, was caught, went to trial and was convicted. Some say it was another factor that led to the Anglo-Zulu war.
But the book's already over 120,000 words. It's plenty long enough. And neither scene would really add much more to the story. It's good to go. Ready for a Beta reader.
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