Recent Posts Tagged With 'writers and research'

• Writing the Modern Thriller: Research

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 15:44 in rob parnell, writers and research, writing the modern thriller

  Lesson Two of Rob Parnell's Writing the Modern Thriller focuses on research. The following is what i turned in for the exercise for this course.Thriller – Lesson 2 – ResearchWell I know I flunk this one right from the start.. but I think I can wo...

• Reference Librarians Sit at the Right Hand of God

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 15:44 in writers and research, refernce librarians

  Or maybe it's "God sits at the right hand of reference librarians". I love reference librarians. Can you tell?Just yesterday I had a truly wonderful experience with the AskaLibrarian online service at King County Library Service. The librarian helpin...

• Word Rivets: On Quibbling about Language in Historical Fiction

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 13:08 in writers and research

  [Originally appeared in Christopher Gortner's blog Historical Boys on 13 October 2008.]I paid attention to historical accuracy when I wrote An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England. The novel is based on stories a friend and I wrote as teen...

• On the Road with Sean O'Quill

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 13:06 in "wintanceaster hauntings", romsey abbey, writers and research

  To answer the question posed by Himself in our character panel as to where the pregnant lass's cottage might be, we planned his journey for him with Mapquest.co.uk. Bearing in mind that the roads would be drastically different now, we will make some...