OK. Anyway…A few days ago I asked not to be taken back here. Guess what….?

 

Wiki : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne

 

And yes. I have his book. Read it!

When you write Historical Fiction it is VITAL to look at least 2 generations behind & 2 generations ahead.

Cause and effect rule is a MAJOR part of the craft. If you’ve no idea what happened right before and right after then – you are writing in a vacuum.

 

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray…I am myself the matter of my book.

 

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

 

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

 

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.