Writing Life Archives

Who Wouldn’t Want to Write about Texas?

Why set a story in Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling…
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Texas brides and romance? You bet! Nine of Barbour’s favorite historical fiction novella writers have collaborated on a romance collection…
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Thomas Jefferson was the president of the United States and Dolley Madison was the queen of Federal City society when…
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How do you react to a do-gooder? I spent many hours during the end of the last century, hunched in…
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Let’s put a story to a face. Take a look at the woman to the left. What color is her…
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Like many, I grew up on sanitized versions of prisoner of war (POW) camps made famous by movies such as…
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