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Slough of Despondence now online!
The second installment of my Civil War Short Stories, Volume 1, is titled “Slough of Despondence,” and is now online as an eBook. This short story is about a man searching for a lost identity in a strange land and under extreme duress. The original story was half as long in order to qualify for the FaithWriters weekly challenge. This version is extended in order to give the reader a bit more information, but not too much. I believe the …
Why write historical fiction
When you ask people what they least favorite subjects were in school, chances are that history is going rank high on that list. Perhaps this is the reason that one of my most often asked questions is, “Why do you write historical fiction?” Follow up comments usually include comments about all the dates and names and how in the world could anyone make all that “stuff” interesting. It is upon that last point that drives my passion for writing historical …
Historical Fiction Defined
I’ve been involved in a number of conversations that centered upon defining historical fiction. While there are concrete dictionary definitions of the genre, a common definition between writers remains rather elusive. I believe the correct place to start when determining such things is indeed with the dictionary definition(s) of a given word or term. Defined by dictionary.com: a novel set among actual events or a specific period of history; also called historical novel Defined by Wikipedia.org: Historical fiction is a …