This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
I am not very moved by historical apologies.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.