Category Archives: writing
How Do You Write Fiction?
During my Military Writers Society of America weekend forum last month, we had a lot of discussion about how to write fiction. Some of the nonfiction writers suggested that writing fiction was very different from writing nonfiction. I’ve never bought into that idea. Continue reading
Second Person Narrative Fiction
Recently, there has been a bit of discussion about the use of a second-person point-of-view narrative in fiction on the excellent Self-Publishing Yahoo Group. I made the comment that second person POV is a difficult thing to do well, particularly for a complete novel. Continue reading
Lights! Camera! Action! Write!
Although not all historical fiction has to be rooted in action, the kinds I like to read and write usually are. I have written two historical novels thus far — Once A Knight and Devil in the North Woods. I consider both to be action stories. Continue reading
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Why the Knight in “Once A Knight”?
During my weekend forum on the Military Writers Society of America website last weekend (April 27-29), one of the members asked about my use of the term knight and my basing the fictional village of Cantiny on the actual old walled city of Toul, France. Did it have something to do with the era of knighthood and chivalry? Continue reading
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“Once A Knight” Video Introduction
Here’s the video intro about my historical novel Once A Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat and Romance in World War I (which is not in the romance novel genre, by the way) plus some info about my weekend author forum sponsored by the Military Writers Society of America. The forum is this weekend. Continue reading
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