The Evolution of a Novel
No doubt some authors conceive a novel, create a brief outline then write full steam ahead. The Admiral’s Wife, my current WIP, is not such a novel. At the beginning,
February 22, 2018
No doubt some authors conceive a novel, create a brief outline then write full steam ahead. The Admiral’s Wife, my current WIP, is not such a novel. At the beginning,
A novel doesn’t write itself, I said to my mother the other day. Of course not, you say. But there’s more to this sentiment than the obvious. A novel needs
Last Sunday my husband and I hosted a dinner with two other couples – an annual tradition that has been going on for close to twenty years. The three women
While Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, I thought I’d use the occasion of US Thanksgiving to articulate some of the things I’m grateful for. The list could be much longer
It began like this. “We should do another bike trip,” my husband said a year ago. “Mm hmm,” I replied. “Before we get too old,” he added. Too old? Surely, mid-sixties
More photos from our trip to France, which is sadly almost over. Back to porridge and old clothes as my husband’s grandmother would say. Overall, we saw chateaus built from
Dear readers … all sorts of things going on here in Tod-land. Some on the writing front and others on the home front, so I’m taking a break from the
In a slim volume of selections from Gift From the Sea, where Anne Morrow Lindbergh muses on self, soul, woman’s life and purpose, I found the following: … the answer
A departure from historical fiction to consider life in general. One of my favourite newspapers is the New York Times. We get the Sunday NYT in Toronto as well as
If I were cleverer or a more experienced writer, I would have written my novels as a series. Planned them out in such a way that novel one would have
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
