Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
But the past is long, and the future is short.
Aargh! I’m too short for this shit!
Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
A moment is a long story short.
The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.
I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.
Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
