Plot, plot, plot - need to write out plot for my novel. The original idea was "Could you use the changes in the calendar for 1752 to commit a crime?". The plot would be an "overcoming the monster" revenge novel where the monster is The East India Company. Does the hero get revenge on the East India Company by somehow damaging the company? How about the inciting event being the loss of a child - possibly an Anglo-Indian child killed or damag
East India House in Leadenhall Street, Londoned in some way by Clive of the East India Company? The hero then travels to England from India steals from the East India Company, a journalist (although of course there weren't journalists as we understand them which is one of the interesting things about the 1750's) publicises the theft; the hero is caught by a policeman (although ditto no police in 1750's but plenty of concern about crime); and the share price drops (which is did in real life) thus seriously damaging the comoany. The title of the book could be "Calendar Crimes".
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