The land fit for heroes

Post WW1 story lines

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Victorian chaos

For 1867, I have looked only at the ‘discovery’ of diamonds in South Africa but there was much going on elsewhere.

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Diddles of the King Historical Fiction

How can a writer use King Arthur’s legend to create a story line?

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Is culture owned?

How does cultural appropriation affect what I write.

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First third person point of view

My method of ensuring a firm point of view character.

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Cairndhu revisited

After the showI’ve started to lay out the follow on from Best in Show in Cairndhu. The opening comes with Broon making his way home from work and meeting Jinks, the postman. Jinks gives Broon […]

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Critical uprising

Reaction to critique

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Why Heroines?

Why heroines are more powerful.

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Prize winning story

I’ve added O’Reilly’s Daughter to the short stories. It won a prize in Writers Journal and I am rather pleased with it. I love characters who don’t conform and Elizabeth is one of those. In […]

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Bruce and the Honourable Thing

We’ve all heard of Robert Bruce and the spider in the cave but I have discovered the Bruce family themselves were spiders drawing people into their web. We start with 1066. It was not just […]

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