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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 voyage of the Lusitania. Can’t say more, or I’d spoil it. I hope you enjoy reading it! […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2024/03/22/some-progress-on-the-publishing-front/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2023/05/05/resonance/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2023/05/05/resonance/#respond Fri, 05 May 2023 20:18:09 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1982

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 associations with a sound, a smell, a sight or taste […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2023/05/05/resonance/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/12/14/of-blood-transfusions-and-brain-magnets/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/12/14/of-blood-transfusions-and-brain-magnets/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2022 23:40:07 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1960

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 mustard gas maimed more than killed, but caused devastating lung and skin damage. Hellish flame throwers terrorized troops. Deadly ordinance destroyed armies […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/12/14/of-blood-transfusions-and-brain-magnets/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/10/12/wordsong/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/10/12/wordsong/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:47:09 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1948

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 the beginning of my professional writing career decades ago, in public […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/10/12/wordsong/feed/ 1 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/08/31/in-the-query-trenches/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/08/31/in-the-query-trenches/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:12:06 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1941

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 variety of form letter rejections and a couple of more personal notes, as […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/08/31/in-the-query-trenches/feed/ 2 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:35:25 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1927

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. Having waited patiently, venturing only as far as a day’s drive from home […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/feed/ 2 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/04/29/letters-from-a-french-hospital/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/04/29/letters-from-a-french-hospital/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:01:09 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1917

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 journeying to Paris to assist in medical treatment of combatants at the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine. In Line of Flight, […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/04/29/letters-from-a-french-hospital/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/#respond Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:53:35 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1886

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 their original form, that gives me chills, as if I’m connecting across time and space to another person’s soul. My research […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:15:44 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1840

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 early drafts as her journal. It was […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/#respond Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:30:44 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1740

You can travel the world on the internet, but you can only go so far. About nine months into writing the first draft of my WWI novel, including a 20,000-word false start, I realized that I needed to see and feel the landscapes that existed only in my imagination. Books and online research were my […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/feed/ 0