In The Flow of Time – February 7, 2025 Major Savary made it into the story. He. Is. Awesome. Oh, and an immigrant to boot. The first Black man to achieve the rank of Major in the US Military. FACTSI’ve researched. The chaos of battle being what it is, no… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – February 1, 2025 I just finished a chapter. Along the way, a possibility arose. Hmmm, this could be fun. I’ve dug into all kinds of rabbit holes. I learn things, I take notes. Along the way I see FACT, and I think to myself,… Continue reading
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
In The Flow of Time – December 21, 2024 So here I am, writing away. This chapter has had some changes, you know, pirates. I added a scene at the end, how Mom, Grandma, and the aunt react to Robinette’s arrest. They’re wondering what they can do about it. Marie,… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – December 20, 2024 Those damn characters! Sometimes it is awesome how they take over. There were pirates in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Odds are really good you’ve heard of Jean Lafitte (spellings vary). Lafitte ran a significant operation from an island in… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – December 11, 2024 I’m about to start a new chapter in this tale. For whatever meta reason, while I’m doing it I’m watching myself doing it. Something about this chapter seems particularly instructive, so here we go. Writers write. Each of us is unique,… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – December 1, 2024 FACT: white men had free black women as concubines. While “free” for real, as in not slaves, there is a massive power difference between white men, mostly French planters circa 1814, and young black women. The concubine relationship was called a… Continue reading
