Tag: The Novel
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Fiction: False Friends at the Academy
Cadet Buck Crenshaw’s friend Carter returns a defaced book . . . For the next three days Buck and Cadet Streeter didn’t have a single conversation. The tent sat like a tomb each afternoon as they polished their guns or passed the time in reading or letter writing. Tomorrow at the mounting of the guard,…
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Fiction: A Shunning at West Point
A few weeks later Buck accepted an invitation to help test the jittery new guards on duty. Stealthy cadets came at all angles and times. One officer played a stranger refusing to give the countersign; another called down from a tree while another one slid by undetected, much to the embarrassment of the fledgling…
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Fiction: West Point Summer
Buck Crenshaw takes on his friends and the new black cadet, Milford Streeter. Buck watched as cadets passed him on The Plain. Who’d hived him to his brother? What burned Buck most was that he had been soft. It seemed the sensible thing to do, but now—his whole reputation as a leader might be destroyed.…
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Fiction: The Difficulties of Hazing
What happens when Cadet Buck Crenshaw acts like a gentleman . . . Buck Crenshaw went to the cadet officer on duty after finishing his final examinations. “Cadet Crenshaw, United States Military Academy, reports his entrance into this office, sir.” “Well, cadet, what do you want in this office?” the upperclassman asked. “I desire permission,…
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. –George Eliot.
Thomas Hicks American, 1823-1890 A Friendly Warning Art Institute Chicago Friendship matters! DON’T FORGET to ENTER MY GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! “The author takes you back in time making you realize that life is really not that much different from today. When stripped down, we all have problems. The characters grab you by the heart and before…
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A Fun Challenge: Having your character sell your book!
Let’s hope Buck Crenshaw can convince you! 🙂 Of course I remember tricking Willy Weldon at the spelling bee my father organized at 1st Presbyterian, and I don’t feel bad about it. Not really, anyway. Everyone fawned over that little headachy cripple. It made me and my twin brother Fred sick. And it was years…
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Editing: A Love Story
Are you waiting for the perfect editor? I didn’t. I’m glad I didn’t read too many “what not to do when writing” blog posts (in fact I’d never read a blog post until years after my first completed manuscript). I made many newbie mistakes (especially in formatting and assuming my eyes were better than they…
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I Found Buck and Fred In A Painting By Cucuel
Sometimes the images come first when writing a novel and sometimes they appear as a gift after your characters are fully formed. This is EXACTLY how I imagined Fred and Buck Crenshaw (since they’re twins) and then I found this lovely painting by Edward Cucuel. In my mind it’s at Buck’s wedding and Fred is…
Author Adrienne Morris 