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Tag Archives: Maryland Historical Society

A thousand unseen helping hands

How did you become a writer? Or a reader, for that matter? How did I get here? All those unseen hands. Sure, I’ve got the hands that have worn out the letter A on my laptop from hours of tapping out new stories, ideas, synopses, query letters. But I can never forget the unseen hands.…

February 21, 2019 in Inspiration, Research, Writing, Writing, Historical Fiction,.

RESEARCH: A valuable clue for my story I didn’t even know I needed

When I was researching the history that forms the background of my Civil War WIP, I found all kinds of treasures at the Maryland Historical Society’s H. Furlong Baldwin Library. But one little document brought new life to my story. I wrote the first draft during National Novel Writing Month a year ago. Writing furiously…

January 12, 2017 in Writing.
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