by Jodi Lea Stewart Keeping History Alive Unique Challenges Though historic fiction writing presents many unique challenges, the most difficult one is that the writer didn’t live during the time period of the novel. Because my favorite time period to write in is the...
No running water, no inside plumbing, no way to run to the store for bread, meat, or butter. The name of the game was survival. In our current world, it’s hard to conceive of what it’s like to feed a lot of mouths when you have empty pockets and no...
It’s like this – the gander that was flapping my face, back and legs . . . . . . while simultaneously biting blood blisters on my little three-year-old derriere didn’t know he was contributing to my future confidence factor. Being left alone in trees by older cousins...
