While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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