“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
How often do we try to imagine ourselves in a situation where others were challenged by the fluctuations of life and somehow stood up to them? We ask, could I possibly have been as courageous as they were? Would I have fought as they did to get through each day with my values intact?
This is why most of us who write get such a thrill from it, but my latest historical novel has taken a new twist I wasn’t prepared for. It has two protagonists living one hundred years apart, with one finding she’s become so identified with the other that she starts living in the earlier era in her imagination and fears she’ll be trapped there forever. Continue Reading
