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Category Archives: Pen Points
SECRETS OF HISTORICAL LETTER WRITING or How to Lock your Letters
Richard Fisher (16 June 2021) posted a terrific article giving insight as to how a postal-free delivery system in the 1200-1850s kept correspondence from prying eyes. This task required ingenuity and adept eye-hand coordination. In my newest book (working title: … Continue reading
What You Don’t Say Tells Another Story: The Power of Subtext in Writing
Facial expression, misdirection, avoidance, double meaning, body language, and quips, are some of the ways to use subtext. How fun for your readers when you let them take part in writing your story. Think about it. If you haven’t spelled … Continue reading
TRIBUTE TO A FRIEND- Judith Van Gieson
Judith Van Gieson passed away unexpectedly in Albuquerque, NM in January. I took these photos of her at what I expect was her last public appearance. Here she is holding the manuscript of her book that had been adopted for … Continue reading
DEODAND: A THING THAT MUST BE OFFERED . . . .
Left-overs from my historical-biography novel research. The year, 1637: Poor John Briant, lies there crumpled in the dirt, bleeding with cuts and scratches. His body has become a broken bulk. Poor, poor John is now quite dead. Who killed John? … Continue reading
Children, Spinsters, and Patriots
Babies died. Children died. Young men and women died. Life in 1630s early-colonial America called for hard work, endurance, and brought much heartache. Here in our high-tech automated world of designer medicines, we think of our ancestral grandfathers and sons … Continue reading
Ale and Leather. . . Let ‘s Drink to it.
If you sailed from England to the New World in the 1630s, before the age of coffee or tea, your beverage of choice would be cider or ale. No one trusted the purity of onboard water. On the ship your … Continue reading
CHARLENE BELL DIETZ, Author: Inkydance Studios 