On the Austen Authors site, I once did a post about my favorite Christmas songs. I have a few as I can usually not pick one, so with such a variety of songs available, I thought I would do a bit of a redux. I’ve only got a couple here, but I thought it might do for a Christmas post. Consider it a Thursday version of Tuesday Tunes! Mary’s Boy Child Easily my favorite version of this song. The Boney…
When the first Hobbit movie was in theaters, I went to see it with my sister. I remember it very well. As we watched, every few minutes my sister would lean over to me and ask, “Did that happen in the book?” On almost every occasion I told her it had not, and we went back to watching until the next instance of creative license in movie writing arose. You probably already know where I’m going with this. But there…
As an author who writes historical fiction, I try to write in the common vernacular of the time and place my story is set. There are many tools that help authors to do this, and my experience in writing many books has given me a general sense of what is usable and what is not. For anything of which I am uncertain, I can go to resources on the net that will give me a good idea of whether a…
It’s my distinct pleasure to introduce you to What’s Up Wednesday, a regular theme day where we post something of our doings, updates, and other items that might be of interest to our readers. Christmas is approaching, and most of the major things that are happening in my life revolve around music and writing. Many times I have referenced my love of music and my activities therein. I am a member of a barbershop quartet group, and we’ll be active…
Tuesday Tunes will be a regular part of our posting repertoire, for here you will find some of the best loved music the world has produced. My blogging partners and I have definitive tastes in music, and while I will not claim any superiority for my tastes (though I think I could make a good case for it ;)), mine will flow in certain directions. While I listen to several genres, I grew up listening to classical, which was a…
For my first post on this site, I thought I would go back to the well. As an Austen writer, I tend to be rather prolific, publishing multiple variations yearly. I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head and sitting in documents on my machine that there is no chance I will ever get to them all. While I would not call writing easy in a general sense, Pride and Prejudice variations are simpler in that you already have the…