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Category Archives: Generating Fiction from History and/or Fact
That Mysterious Natural Image
After writing clinically about mystery in my last post, I got thinking about how it enters the text. First, I checked Dictionary.com and came up with these two appropriate definitions: anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: … Continue reading →
The Need for Obsession
I am a writer. I am also a tennis player. (In fact, I have torn the ligaments in my right elbow playing tennis, and in lieu of having Tommy John surgery, I wear a wrist-to-shoulder metal Bledsoe brace on my … Continue reading →
The Inner Conflict
I will be teaching a workshop on writing the endings of short stories and novels at the Mad Anthony Writers’ Workshop April 13-15 in Hamilton, Ohio. In the process of preparing, I was made conscious of subjects that generally remain … Continue reading →
Learning from the Historical Fiction of Other Writers
I’m just finishing up a debut novel by Debra Dean called The Madonnas of Leningrad, a must-read for art lovers and anyone who wants to know what it was like to survive the terrible winter of the Nazi seige of … Continue reading →
Grappling with Gaps in the Record
In keeping with my resolve not to change the historical record where it exists, I still wrestle with how to handle the gaps. The writing of fictional biography gives me some license, of course, but I mostly interpret that to … Continue reading →
Posted in Auguste Forel, Bulgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Eduard Einstein, Einstein's Daughter, Fictional biography, Generating Fiction from History and/or Fact, historical fiction, Marija Maric, Michele Zackheim, Mileva Maric, Milos Maric, point of view, reading, schizophrenia, Serbia, writing, Zorka Maric, Zurich
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Ahhh, Bern
Bern is a medieval city that has changed little structurally since 1410 when a law was passed, after a fire that burned all the wooden buildings, that decreed all buildings be made of stone. Of course the old city now … Continue reading →
Posted in Anus Mirabilus, Bern, Eduard Einstein, Einstein, Elsa Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Generating Fiction from History and/or Fact, Hadley Richardson, Hans Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas, History Museum, Johanna Fantova, Margot Einstein, Mileva Maric, Oktoberfest, Special Theory of Relativity, Switzerland
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The Einstein Tour Part I, Lake Como
My husband and I arrived in Milan yesterday after the (for me) sleepless overnight flight that is penance for the luxury of European travel, meaning no taxi fare seemed too high if it meant we might settle in at our … Continue reading →
How much of this is true?
For the second time since I began writing fictional biography, someone said, “But how am I to know what’s true?” My answer is that the scenes are made up, the dialogue, the emotional movement, but the settings are as real … Continue reading →