Year: 2020
You could join the Foreign Legion. You could cross Antarctica on foot.
Read MoreWhat made Thermopylae different from every other great battle?
Read MoreThe Minutemen of Lexington and Concord, the sharpshooters on both sides at Gettysburg, the “Greatest Generation” of WWII.
Read MoreI have a friend who runs a literary agency in Hollywood. She represents screenwriters. I was having lunch with her a few weeks ago and I asked her, “Is there any one mistake you find your writers making over and over?”
Read MoreCombat for the ancient Greeks was an up-close-and-personal affair. Either you killed the man across from you or he killed you.
Read MoreA writer’s story about how “Gates of Fire” came to be.
Read MoreI’ve been doing a video series on social media called “The Warrior Archetype.” One of the points I’m trying to make is that exterior virtues that we often associate with soldiers and physical combatants can also be called upon by you and me as we fight the interior “war of art.”
Read MoreDo we study the Warrior Archetype so we can strap on a sword and march off to battle?
Read MoreYou turn fifteen and (if you’re a guy) you suddenly want to put on a helmet and beat your buddies’ brains out on the football field, drive fast, hang with your homies, and blow things up.
Read MoreI was watching Shakespeare’s Henry V the other night (the Kenneth Branagh film version from 1989) and it got me thinking about historical fiction and why I write it. At least one of the reasons.
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