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And Another Step Forward

And Another Step Forward

More progress on the publishing front to share: The opening of Line of Flight was published in the April 2024 issue of Embark, an online literary journal that presents openings from 10 unpublished novels twice a year. This happens to be...

April 10, 2024 Evelyn Herwitz getting published 0 Comments
Some Progress on the Publishing Front

Some Progress on the Publishing Front

I’m thrilled to share the news that an excerpt from Line of Flight has published in the online literary journal, The Writing Disorder (such an appropriate title for this pursuit)! “The Sinking” takes place on the doomed last...

March 22, 2024 Evelyn Herwitz Lusitania 0 Comments
Resonance

Resonance

For me, writing is musical. It’s also a quest for precision. How do I channel these images and feelings in my mind and heart into words on the page? Metaphor is, of course, one way to get there, through the back door of memory. Emotional...

May 5, 2023 Evelyn Herwitz metaphor, passenger pigeon, research 0 Comments
Of Blood Transfusions and Brain Magnets

Of Blood Transfusions and Brain Magnets

To say that World War I was gruesome is to understate the obvious. Updated weapons—like the 600-bullets-per-minute, rapid-fire machine gun, with a range of more than 1,000 yards—decimated infantries. Chlorine gas, phosgene, and...

December 14, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Ambulance Hospital, hospitals, WWI medicine 0 Comments
Wordsong

Wordsong

When I write, I hear music. In the words, that is. Some writers play favorite music in the background while writing. I don’t. It distracts me from hearing melodies as they emerge from the page. I can trace my awareness of word rhythms to...

October 12, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz stylistic choices, writing process 2 Comments
In the Query Trenches

In the Query Trenches

I’ve been sending out queries for Line of Flight since November, about 10 months, now. So much for any naive assumptions that I’d find a literary agent sooner than later. I’m up to about 40 queries, so far, and have received a...

August 31, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz getting published, literary agent, querying 2 Comments
Time Travel

Time Travel

This afternoon at 2:15, my husband and I were supposed to be on a plane taxiing from the gate on a long-planned trip abroad—our first significant excursion in three years. I had been dreaming of our destination even before the pandemic hit...

July 8, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz plot structure, point of view, stylistic choices 2 Comments
Letters from a French Hospital

Letters from a French Hospital

In October 1914, two-and-a-half months after Germany launched WWI in Europe, Dr. Mary M. Crawford, a graduate of Cornell University (’04) and Cornell Medical College (’07), set sail for France—one of six American surgeons...

April 29, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Ambulance Hospital, Dr. Mary Crawford, hospitals, WWI medicine, Zeppelins 0 Comments
In Their Words

In Their Words

For anything I’ve ever written, be it fiction or non-fiction, my favorite research is always sifting through primary sources. There is something about reading materials that are unfiltered by someone else’s editorial judgment, in...

February 16, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Fund for French Wounded, primary sources, research 0 Comments
Men Weren’t the Only Literary Legends to Drive Ambulances in WWI

Men Weren’t the Only Literary Legends to Drive Ambulances in WWI

Literary giants Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, W. Somerset Maugham, Dashiell Hammett—all were aspiring writers when they volunteered as ambulance drivers during World War I. But Hemingway, perhaps the most celebrated for...

January 13, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Fund for French Wounded, Gertrude Stein, woman ambulance drivers 0 Comments
Angels in Waiting

Angels in Waiting

Uniforms are cultural artifacts. They encapsulate social values, priorities, gender biases, romanticized ideals, and more. Practicality factors in, too. During WWI, for example, combat soldiers stopped wearing bright colors that had characterized...

December 15, 2021 Evelyn Herwitz hospitals, nurses, WWI fashion 0 Comments
On Creating a Voice

On Creating a Voice

Of the many lessons learned over seven years of writing Line of Flight, one of the most challenging was figuring out the voice of my narrator, Simone Levitsky. I knew in my gut that I needed to tell the story from her point of view, and I wrote...

November 22, 2021 Evelyn Herwitz character development, point of view, stylistic choices 0 Comments
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