14 Sep 2022

So, You Want to Write a Historical Novel? Story? Play? 4 Research Tips to Get You Started

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Shakespeare himself could have done a bit of background research while writing his play, Julius Caesar. How’s that? In Act 2, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar, there’s a famous example of an anachronism. Brutus and Cassius discuss a mechanical clock: Brutus: “Peace! Count the clock.” Cassius: “The clock has stricken three.” But guess … Read More

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6 Jul 2022

At a Loss for a Word? Above and Beyond the Thesaurus

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Beautiful View? How so? You turn the pages of what promised to be a ripping yarn. But “it” happens again. On the very first page, you read “It was a beautiful view.” A few pages later, again, a similar example pops up: “James is a big man, and a bad … Read More
15 Jun 2022

Re-Vision

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Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages … Read More

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