Tag: Writers
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Where Does Beauty Get You?
Thankful Crenshaw I’ve been thinking lately of my female characters and how little I actually understand about them. This isn’t a bad thing because it keeps me curious, but inevitably I get dazzled by their beauty or annoyed by their tendency towards bitchiness. (I’m glad that this word is no longer a cuss because if…
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James Joyce Goes Acoustic
Listen to the songs that inspired Mr. Joyce. http://www.james-joyce-music.com/ Does music inspire your art?
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Books I’ve Known and Loved
Anything by Captain Charles King. Oliver Knight’s engaging book about frontier manners based on the study of King’s fiction is one of my all time favorites. (I like to have it where I can see it. It makes me happy)
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Captain Charles King, A Soldiers’ Writer
If there were a McDreamy writer of the Western Army it would have to have been Charles King. This man lived and breathed all things military. His grandfather happened to live next door to Commanding General Winfield Scott and when, at the age of five, Charles spotted him in civilian clothes he gave the general…
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Books I’ve Known and Loved
These books were tremendously useful when writing about Katherine Weldon’s experience as a missionary teacher. Education For Extinction is full of anecdotes and is not really about the extinction of Indians but of that way of life we associate with Indians. Anyone who has ever taught or studied education must realize that the system is…
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If Life is War Then Writing A Book Is Like Planting a Victory Garden
New Jersey the Garden State courtesy of NJ Historical Society Seeds are only ten cents but ideas are even cheaper. If you look carefully, you notice that there’s piles of duplicate packets, but if you’ve ever grown a garden each carrot comes out a little different, yet still nourishes (let’s not debate organics here). Books…
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In The Midst of War, Rape and Pillage There’s This
After a week of confronting the senseless slaughter of buffalo, I needed a break. Almanzo Wilder and Laura Ingalls sang this tune on a night of courting.
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A Crazy Beautiful Couple or Just Crazy
As a writer I’ve given myself the task of writing about one self-actualized person. Yes. Only one. It’s like writing about a martian in a way or maybe what it would be like to write about Custer and his charming wife Libby. I’m not self-actualized, by the way, so getting into the head of someone…
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Books I’ve Known and Loved / Anything by Robert Utley
The West was no simple place. Robert Utley gets that. Soldier/Indian relations varied depending on the Indian and the soldier. Pride, love and ego, not to mention military orders, pressure from the East and teenaged warriors run amok made for complications and tragedy. Utley writes about the West like no other. Check out A Life…
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Books I’ve Known and Loved
Skirt-wearing, horse-riding, brave women standing by their men on the frontier and in the military.
Author Adrienne Morris 