"When you read, you begin with..."

'La leçon de lecture' by Léon-Augustin L’hermitte

It may not be a good idea to swipe something from another writer's fiction, but borrowing an idea from another blogger can have very happy results. I'm not sure where the idea of the A-Z challenge originated, but I appropriated it from Rachel Heffington. So far as I understand it, most bloggers challenge themselves to write posts about one of their works in progress, on topics ranging from A to Z. But I've decided to give it a twist of my own. I don't have a work in progress that would fit the bill at the moment, so I'm going to write posts on A to Z topics that have to do with writing historical fiction in general.

(I'll gladly admit, at the present moment I haven't the faintest idea what X or Z will be. Fantasy authors have it a bit easier there, since they get to make up their own words and topics.)

I'm going to aim for an A-Z post about every couple of weeks. That way I'll have a little time and space to think them out, and they won't take over my whole blogging schedule. Look for something beginning with A sometime next week!

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