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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
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