Writing Writers and the Writers who Write

So for several months now all we've been writing is fiction.

We've wrapped up ANZACs, we've completed the rough draft of the Austrian Painter, Whatever Happened to Jake and Patricia Bloom is on the verge of completion.

In that time we haven't been writing any history. After all we spent years working on the Pershing in Command manuscript (see sidebar). In fact the last history pieces we wrote were in 2016. These were one article on Sherman's March and one on the Union Army's Grand Review. Since then, nothing.

We've decided its time to write some history again. We always found that writing history clears out and focused the mind for fiction writing. Our old system was to work on history the first few hours of the day, and then work on fiction the rest of the day. So we're going back to that.

We're working on a series of pieces on tactical actions of the American Expeditionary Force in the Great War. Our current project is the 42nd Rainbow Division crossing the Ourcq River in the Marne Campaign. After that we'll do the 3rd Division crossing the Marne. There's nothing we don't know about the AEF and its time to put that to work. We'll bundle it all into a book when ready.

Tentative chapters:

-Pershing's Tactics
-The 1st and 2nd Divisions at Soissoins
-The 3rd Division crosses the Marne
-The 42nd Division crosses the Ourcq
-The 82nd Division rescues the Lost Battalion
-the 42nd Division in the Meuse-Argonne
-Hunter Liggett in Command, the final push of 1 November