THE ORPHAN SCRIVENER ESSAYS

THE ORPHAN SCRIVENER ESSAYS

THE ORPHAN SCRIVENER We started this email newsletter because we were advised that authors should have a newsletter. However, we don't really enjoy promotion, so although we sometimes talk about writing or Roman history, mostly we just do personal essays. Current Issue \| Website Home
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List of Essays
Eric's Bits Character Descriptions How We Write Together King Cotton Comics Sighting A Tree Frog Historical Accuracy in Mysteries Believing in Santa Going to the Movies in the Old Days (U.S.) Interactive Fiction Working at Writing Fantasy in Mysteries Anachronisms in Historical Fiction Santa's Longest Night Who Was That Cat? Memory Louis H. Silverstein The Writer's Ticker Tape Parade From Typing Fingers to Broken Legs Naming, and Renaming, Characters Bad Reviews King's ON WRITING Bordering on Fiction (about maps) Wood You Believe? (about orinteering) We All Have the Raw Material (writing nuts and bolts) Writing for an Audience A Spell Cast by Willows (favorite childhood book) Red Star, Silver Lining (Musings on a review) How Now Snow Plow? Batting Ideas Around Falling Into A Revery (about writing historical mysteries) The Square on the Hippodrome (fact in history mysteries) Don't Leap to the Wrong Conclusion (Bull-leaping. Fact?) Salary and Egg Sandwich (Working at the law library) The Giant Slingshot (Activities of a childhood club) Little Nell's Gone Missing (Things Eric doesn't like to see in mysteries)	Mary's Bits Christmas Chaos Ravens/Corpus Juris Hadrian's Wall Garden Gnomes and Mithraeums Empress Theodora and the Duchess of Devonshire First Footing on New Year's Eve Going to the Cinema in the Old Days (England) Roman Taxation The Last School Holiday Thoughts on a Story by M.R. James Naming Characters Fruit Gums vs. Wrapping Paper Three For a Letter Rhyme Some Ideas Take the Biscuit Theodora, Champion of the Working Schmoe Justin Time Roman Around Camelot Modern Statues Commemorating Ancient Romans Baaaaa'd Crimes Ancient Quit-rents Changing a Bathroom Washer How Dare You Call Me That? (historical figures named John) Stomp A Reed's Hero (Justinianic anagrams) Reading Doc Savage Woolly Thinking (listening to radio with the lights out) Making a Reader Atrabilious (esoteric words discovered while reading) Youthful Fortitude (a snow fort) Keeping Cool is a Sirius Business Mything Links (Greek Gods in the marketplace) What A Carry On (The Carry On Films) Another Sort of Good Character (Victorian charities.) Grinding Out A Living (Odd occupations) Mayor the Best Man Win (Some British folk customs) A Strange Case (Mary speculates about a 19th century murder) A John the Eunuch Chronology

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