🇺🇸-born, 🇬🇧-based, novelist.📖 Writing, travel, culture and more. Always holding "auditions" – so be careful or you may end up a character in “1797”…and perhaps an evil one.🎭 (And why do I suspect some of you might like that latter in particular?)😂
As I go at it again, my now late uncle’s words come back to me regularly: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.” I love it. Come sometime in 2019, I hope you will love this, too.
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“If we may return to the subject of our discussion. Ms. Markle had been on a television drama on cable on the USA network…”
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The Sun Also Rises is said to be probably his best novel. Interestingly, too, it is his first. (Not something most writers wish for themselves.)
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No invading army ever took Pembroke Castle. Needless to say the café inside was never reached either, so no conqueror ever enjoyed one of its excellent cappuccinos.
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You may well be reading this with headphones in. I dare to wonder what music you associate with me?
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When I saw that retweeted into my timeline the other day, what was my reaction?
I could only think… here’s another idea: read a history book.
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I find one of the “sneaky” joys in fiction writing is basing characters, or important aspects of them, on living (or once living) people and only you know who he or she “really” is.
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My wife also laughs to family and friends, “It’s a bit of a weird feeling being English and visiting George Washington’s or Thomas Jefferson’s house.”
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I envy someone reading it for the first time.
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An aside to put the era in some additional context. As the American rebellion was breaking out in 1775, in England one Jane Austen was born that same year and lived until 1817.
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