Category: Articles
Articles that I have finished and articles that I am developing.
How to use your ‘phone as an internet passport
As a writer and author it’s essential for me to be able log into the various publishing websites such as…
Nice or nasty Anglo Saxons?
In my novel ‘Our Saxon Life’ I portray the Anglo Saxons as ‘brutal,’ but isn’t that being rather unfair to…
How to avoid ruin with Anglo Saxons runes
You know how it is, you want to use some Anglo Saxon runes but don’t know how to do it.A…
The role of the Confederacy in World War 2
This epitaph, ‘for your tomorrow we gave our today,’ was published on a Confederate page relating to the American civil…
The South as an English country estate
In my latest novel ‘Rebel Liar,’ which is set in the American Civil War, one of the characters describes the…
A long and winding gently curving way of writing description
‘Long winding’ staircase or ‘gently curving’ staircase or both? Or don’t bother to describe it? As in: ‘The two doctors…
Historical accuracy versus common sense
Sometimes you have to use your commonsense instead of being super duper historically accurate, as this article in my ‘writing…
Diagnosis: over-dependent on Wiki
I recently realised that I’ve been entirely relying on ‘Wiki’ aka Wikipedia for my research into historical facts instead of…
Could this solution to the problem of ‘writer’s block’ work for you?
Here’s a possible solution to the problem of ‘Writer’s block,’ which occurs when writers can’t think what to write next….