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Tag Archives: Montana writer
A Woman’s Right — to Self-Defense
I live in Montana, a state that recognizes a human being’s right to bear arms in self-defense of person or property, in both Article II, section 3, of the Montana Constitution and in HB 0228, the act passed in 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction of the West, self-defense, Women's issues
Tagged gun owhership, Montana writer, Writing fiction
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Writing — My Way
No matter where a writer is in the experience continuum, we all do it differently. I recently read a post by a fine Montana writer, Craig Lancaster, on Facebook. He mentioned that he had 20,000 words on his next novel. … Continue reading
Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure
Craig Lancaster, whose novels 600 Hours of Edward and The Summer Son have been featured here, has a new book coming out in December: Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure, a collection of ten short stories. Before the book’s … Continue reading
Posted in literary fiction, Montana literature
Tagged fiction of the West, Montana writer
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Why I Write What I Write
I’ve been thinking for more than a year about why I’m driven to write about people in nineteenth-century Montana. Unlike some people who can drive straight to a conclusion, I have to mull, then tuck ideas away in my subconscious … Continue reading
Putting History in Historical Fiction
“Don’t let facts get in the way of the story.” I don’t know how many times I’ve been told that. As if history didn’t count, as if we could just ignore what happened on the grounds that “History is written … Continue reading