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My blog journey on writing, publishing news, historical research & book reviews
My blog journey on writing, publishing news, historical research & book reviews
People in the 19th century didn’t have radios, YouTube, or downloadable or live streaming music from the Internet. If they wanted any kind of music, they had to produce it themselves. Therefore...
The edit muse is that internal instinct that makes you want to stop and evaluate everything you write to make sure it is worthy before you go on. It’s the perfectionist coming out in some of us...
Christmas as we know it today was much different in the Regency era, which existed in the early 1800’s to 1820. Most of the historical traditions that have survived throughout the years date...
I think of the plot structure as the bare bones to a story and the main characters as the vital organs. But emotion is the heartbeat. It’s what makes a story come alive, and helps us experience what...
The Carolina Renaissance Faire is held in Huntersville, NC and typically begins in early October and runs through mid-November. All of the rides were authentic in that there was no electricity to run...
The setting of my upcoming novel, A Season of Atonement, the working title, is set in Hampshire County in England during the Regency period in 1811. In order to write this novel with as much...
Hampshire is the Perfect Book Setting
July 10, 2023
Fun at the Carolina Renaissance Faire
August 8, 2023
Creating the Emotional Heartbeat of a Story
September 21, 2023
An Authentic Christmas in the Regency Era
October 7, 2023
Managing the Edit Muse
October 21, 2023
People in the 19th century didn’t have radios, YouTube, or downloadable or live streaming music from the Internet. If they wanted any kind of music, they had to produce it themselves. Therefore...
The edit muse is that internal instinct that makes you want to stop and evaluate everything you write to make sure it is worthy before you go on. It’s the perfectionist coming out in some of us...
Christmas as we know it today was much different in the Regency era, which existed in the early 1800’s to 1820. Most of the historical traditions that have survived throughout the years date...
I think of the plot structure as the bare bones to a story and the main characters as the vital organs. But emotion is the heartbeat. It’s what makes a story come alive, and helps us experience what...
The Carolina Renaissance Faire is held in Huntersville, NC and typically begins in early October and runs through mid-November. All of the rides were authentic in that there was no electricity to run...
The setting of my upcoming novel, A Season of Atonement, the working title, is set in Hampshire County in England during the Regency period in 1811. In order to write this novel with as much...