Are you up for a challenge? It’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time again. The deal is 50K words in 30 days. You can do it. You’ve always wanted to write a novel, so why not now? If you’re interested, check the NaNo website. Seriously, I learned about NaNoWriMo back in 2007 and I joined [...]
Archive for the ‘Chronicles of War’ Category
Series: Characters in the story Chronicles of War Little is recorded of Colonel Smith. It is believed that he was born in Vermont around 1819. At some point he took up residence in Clinton, IA. When Iowa’s 26th Volunteer Infantry was formed in the summer of 1862, Colonel Smith was given command–a post he served faithfully [...]
Chronicles of War: the podcast has reached twenty… episodes, that is. Still a long, long way to go. The research for the book has been broad, spanning Iowan history, the Civil War, the many historical characters and places, not to mention the family history involved. The writing has been so much fun, creating and adding meat to [...]
Series: Characters in the story Chronicles of War. One of the officers Job Trites encountered was the leader of 4th Iowa Infantry, Colonel James Alexander Williamson. Born in Kentucky, Williamson moved to Iowa at the age of 15. Eventually he enrolled as a law student and was admitted to the bar. Just prior to the Civil [...]
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