HeyJaredCynthia Hoskin
Cynthia Hoskin has been writing since time immemorial, has two books: "Fall's Bright Flame" and "The Ides of Vermont" and works with clients on writing and publishing memoirs. She has been a journalist and business writer.
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Murdered Darlings 4 (opens the original)
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Murdered Darlings continues to lead me on unexpected detours, and I daresay some confusion, about the details of the Ide family. This time we get a glimpse of the difficulty of pinning down historical fact. In The Ides of Vermont, by Marjorie’s own telling, her sister Anne Ide Cockran wore green taffeta. In the New York Times article we have her in grey taffeta. Are we to conclude that she ran out halfway through the ceremony and changed costumes?Marjorie’s and The
Murdered Darlings 3 (opens the original)
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Murdered Darlings, 2 (opens the original)
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I stoop and pick another handful of yellowed paper off the cutting room floor. It turns out to be an article Marjorie Ide wrote in 1892 for The Outlook, London Conservative Weekly that was reprinted in The St. Johnsbury Caledonian—her memories of Robert Louis Stevenson.Robert Louis Stevenson, Marjorie reports, was heavily entangled in Samoan politics. There were two Samoan chiefs on Upolu, the second largest island, one put on his throne by the whites (King Malietoa) but buttressed by two groups
Murdered Darlings, 1 (opens the original)
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This is the first off the cutting room floor from my recent publication, The Ides of Vermont. During future months, I will share the excitement and agony behind writing my historical biographical novel. The unspoken challenge in delivering as much reliable information as possible inside a compelling narrative is huge. In my case, the process took me nearly a decade, and to quote British author Arthur Quiller Couch: "Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing
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