In The Flow of Time – January 26, 2025 A risk of good historical fiction is the author dumps tons and tons of research on you. My writing friends have hammered on me for that. Good historical fiction is not a recitation of facts, it’s a story. So here I… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – January 24, 2025 It is 1817. The current scene involve a doctor’s establishment, and a slave pen. What did people, circa 1820, call these places? Dr. Josias Kerr, my character, is historical. He’s from Northern Ireland, arrived with the British assault in 1815, as… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – January 21, 2025 I find the whole process of writing to be a fascinating mental exercise, hence these posts. I do it, and while I do it I watch me do it. Sometimes I do my best writing in the shower. And I love… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – January 13, 2025 This sojourn into the art of writing is courtesy of our long stay in Paris recently, where in some cases I began thinking in French, again. Ah, fluency. I’m writing in English. Duh. 🙂 But in New Orleans circa 1816 people… Continue reading
