by David West | Mar 26, 2023 | News
We visited Oxford yesterday, for a Floreat Aula Legacy Society dinner at my old college, St Edmund Hall. Because we couldn’t check into our room until the afternoon, we visited the botanic garden. I’d never visited the botanical garden before. I suppose, as a student,...
by David West | Mar 18, 2023 | News
I’m enjoying Julia Pardoe’s biography of Marie de Medici very much. Please don’t think that I’ve found any writing blunders in her work, it seems remarkably well researched. Readers of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures may be interested to know who officiated at...
by David West | Mar 15, 2023 | News
Sir Isaac Newton wrote, in a letter to Robert Hooke, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Creative people constantly strive to produce something original, but we are inevitably influenced by what has gone before us. I have posted...
by David West | Mar 14, 2023 | News
I said in my last post that I would read my character sketches, tracing the connections and conflicts. It struck me this morning, that a key conflict is that between mother and son, Marie de Medici and Louis XIII. The conflict between Marie and Richelieu demands...
by David West | Mar 13, 2023 | News
I have just completed all the character sketches for the historical actors in Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Scrivener is an excellent tool for assembling research, as well as plotting and writing. I discovered something interesting about Sully, Henri...
