HeyJaredNot in the Script
Random musings and confessions by an historical fiction author.
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Agrippa versus Marx (opens the original)
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Write what you love (opens the original)
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No one said the writing journey was easy. It was always a dream of mine, and then reality hit home. But I love it. A while back, I gave an interview with a publisher to be included in a book of short stories. They wanted to know more about the background to the story that unfolds in Vipers of Rome, where the idea came from, and the research involved. When I found it lurking in my files I decided to bring it up to date to share with you here because it includes the inspiration behind my writing.
Who was Goliath? (opens the original)
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Sportswriters love the metaphor. Low-ranked nobody defeats tennis champion. Unheard-of soccer team overcomes elite superstars.Then there’s ‘Small nation (e.g. Greenland) defies global superpower’s bid for supremacy‘.We love it when the plucky underdog beats the overwhelming favourite. And that, after all, is the moral of the story in the Old Testament that has survived the test of time and made us all feel better about the little guy who takes on the greedy corporate giant.So what was the origin
The Bear Facts (opens the original)
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Today’s quiz asks the question, What do you do when you meet a very bad-tempered grizzly bear face-to-face? Do you:A. RunB. Cry and wet your pantsC. Say ‘Boo’D. Take a photo of itE. Fashion a character in your next novel based on the bearYou guessed – the answers are in what I’m about to tell you. No need to skip to the end where the answer is revealed in small type, upside down, so you have to crane your neck or turn your device until you can read it.An author I adm
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