Started Nano on Sunday but at the moment I'm a bit behind on the word count. I started doing a bit more research about the London rookeries (dreadful housing areas) and the music halls. The trouble with research is that it's addictive and before you know it, you've eaten up your actual writing time. While the research has given me a bit more of a clear idea going forward, it will mean that I'll spend the next couple of days catching up if I want to finish the first draft by the end of the month.
The main character is called Ellie, and in this first book of what I intend to be a series, she loses her father. Whenever she ends up in a troublesome situation a character called the cracksman, turns up and rescues her. He first turns up when she is almost abducted when she is ten years old by one of the many human traffickers that abounded in nineteenth century London. The cracksman has ties to her past that she is not yet aware of, but these will become clear as the book progresses as eventually, they team up together. His back-story is that he's been seconded from the military into the very secret service that had been part of London's ruling class certainly since the time of Elizabeth the first. More on this as the month progresses.
