Writing the Historical Road Less Travelled (How to Build a Historical Fiction Plot – Pt.3)

(Continued from Part 1 and Part 2)

History as a whole provides a vast collection of topics that are ripe to be made into historical novels.

Even when you’ve narrowed your interest to a specific historical era, the possibilities are virtually endless.

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Reasons to Keep a Journal

I first started journaling years ago because Julia Cameron told me to.

Not literally; I’ve never met or communicated with the renowned author and screenwriter personally.

However in her bestselling creative self-help book/program The Artist’s Way, which I completed in 2011, she advocates a practice of “morning pages”—three handwritten, stream-of-consciousness pages of journaling first thing every morning.

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Recent Reads – November to December 2018

Renowned horror/supernatural/spec fic author Stephen King famously claimed the following:

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

He’s right in more ways than one.  The tools that reading has to offer are numerous.

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Using Evaluation Theory to Help You Set Your New Year’s Resolutions

“New year, new you”, so the popular saying goes.

However negatively this mantra tends to be received, especially online, I am here for it because for me, I have a pretty good track record of making it work.

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Learning by Doing (Over): Even More Thoughts on Having My Novel Critiqued

Apparently, I’m both a better and worse writer than I always thought.

It’s been pretty much a full year since I started my critique group, and the time I’ve spend working with my CPs has been full of revelations about myself as a writer.

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