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Tag: history

Odd Writers #9: Balzac’s Fuel for Thought

Want to be a prolific author? Worried you’re not writing enough? It might depend on how many cups of coffee you’re prepared to drink! 😳

19th century, author, caffeine, coffee, french, fuel, habit, history, honore de balzac, Odd Writers, weird, Writing

Flambards by K.M Peyton

Flambards taught me, like no other books I read in my childhood, that people and relationships are complicated things…

author, Books, childrens, favourite, first world war, flambards, history, horses, K M Peyton, Meg Rosoff, series

Building up a History for ‘Foxfires’

When I’m writing a larger piece of work, one of the fun parts is the conjuring of odd snippets to add to the history or background of the story. Sometimes these snippets end up in the book and sometimes they initiate a complete change of direction…

#amwriting, background, construction, creative writing, curious tales, fiction, history, legend, spooky, story, yorkshire

Jo’s Books

Foxfires

11:42 pm

The Curtain Twitcher’s Handbook

Blackwood

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