The Last Sentence–For Now: Thoughts on Finishing the Rough Draft of a Novel
On Easter Sunday I did something I’d been fantasizing about for a long time: I wrote the last paragraph, the last sentence, the last period of my novel. As it happened, the day was warm and sunny, and I wrote this long awaited conclusion (long awaited by me, that...Writing Historical Fiction: The Challenge of Vivid Details
When I decided to undertake writing historical fiction, I thought that the hardest part would be finding all the facts I needed and getting them right. That actually turned out to be doable, though very time-consuming. More difficult has been finding the small...Research for Historical Fiction: Conducting Interviews
Writing historical fiction is full of challenges, and among the most formidable of those challenges is the research involved. It’s a huge task. But it’s an interesting one, and if the research leads you to interviewing other people, as my research has done, then one...Research for Writing Historical Fiction: Getting Started
For the last several years my writing time has been absorbed by two novels. The one I’m currently writing, tentatively titled Voice, is about ¾ complete in its first draft. The other, The Bomb Shelter Quintet, has been finished, but I will be revising it after I...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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