Tag Archives: novels

Book Review:
The Saint and the Fasting Girl

It was a real honour to be asked by Anna Richenda, recently, if I would review her new self-published novel, The Saint and the Fasting Girl. As a fan of HistoryFish.net her expansive website devoted to medieval religious topics, I had been reading progress reports in her blog about the book’s publication for some time. …

August 7, 2009 – 2:04 pm | By David Morton | Posted in Books, History, Medievalism, The Novel, The Writer's Struggle, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Slaying Dragons

A couple of weeks ago, I had my trial by fire. I attended a meeting of my erstwhile writers’ group and read a passage from my novel.
I had taken a few weeks off work to make some headway on the novel and I had about 40 pages of material from which to choose a passage …

April 30, 2009 – 5:41 am | By David Morton | Posted in The Writer's Struggle, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Inspiring Places: Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play

Finally, a respite from the rain and the cold. The sun shines today in Vancouver, and it looks like spring, though the cherry blossoms are nowhere to be seen. The blossoms in my front yard are trying, but they are reluctant to invest themselves in this uneven weather. They look like little popcorn kernels ready …

March 21, 2009 – 10:35 am | By David Morton | Posted in Books, Inspiration, The Novel, Uncategorized, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Middle Ages Still Rule!

Back in January, I wrote a blog post about the medieval era in general and the fact that it suffers as a time overshadowed by the Renaissance, a period of flowering humanism and artistic and cultural progress. I have nothing against the Renaissance, folks, but I am regularly surprised and delighted that the Middle Ages …

March 8, 2009 – 3:23 pm | By David Morton | Posted in Medievalism, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Meditation, Inspiration and Flavia de Luce

I was at a meditation workshop this past weekend, and found it a gold mine of inspiration for my writing. We did many hours of meditating, and as the noise/clutter of my mind died down into the great quiet, there were these large nuggets of ideas, sitting there. For the first time, I saw the …

February 11, 2009 – 4:00 am | By David Morton | Posted in Inspiration, The Novel, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Follett’s Dark Ages Are A Little Too Tidy-Clean

Everywhere I look, these days, I notice someone reading Ken Follett’s World Without End. Yesterday, I saw someone wading through it on the bus to work; later, someone else reading it in Starbucks. In December, I’d see several open copies each day on the beach in Cabo San Lucas. World Without End has been out …

January 27, 2009 – 9:00 am | By David Morton | Posted in Medievalism, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)