Tag: writing research
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The Quaker City
The steamship Quaker City at the port of Naples, 1867, Tommaso de Simone In 1867, Mark Twain took a five-month journey to the Holy Land aboard the Quaker City steamship. That voyage became the basis for his first major work, the novel Innocents Abroad. The book was the first of its kind, a novel about…
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The Power of the Written Word
First published on PaperLanternWriters.com in March 2020 Everyone knows that the written word is powerful. A wide variety of examples exist that prove it. As an author of historical fiction, I have found primary sources to be the most powerful written word in research. One of my most precious possessions is a journal begun by…