Author: Paul Gresham
How to use an ancient language in a novel part 2
This is part two of a series called ‘How to use an ancient language in a novel.’ and it includes…
How to use an ancient language in a novel
How to use an ancient language when writing a novel in modern English.
A free spy
In my novel ‘Rebel Liar,’ a novel of British spying during the American civil war, one of the characters wonders…
In love with a plague doctor part 3
My eager lips move towards the plague doctor’s beak, and for a moment I hope that I might kiss him.
How to avoid writing about a ‘banned’ topic
Here’s one way of ethically avoiding mentioning the corona virus if you’re writing a novel. ‘Ethically’ means not being sneaky,…
When it isn’t okay to say okay
Writing Plague Doctor Three (and Plague Doctor Two) created a few problems. Linguistic and cultural problems. Rylee, the main character,…
In love with a plague doctor part 2
“This is the only one that I love” he says tenderly.
In love with a plague doctor
I look at the plague doctor in his long black coat and hat and mask with a beak at the end of it and wonder what it would be like to fall in love with him.
How to chill to an ambiguous word
That embarrassing moment when you realise that you’ve written a word that can also mean something else. For example. This…
First, do no harm
It’s easy to be contemptous of history, contemptous of historical figures, to mock certain military generals for their mistakes, for…
