Dialect and the hamster/grandfather issue

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Pamela Schoenewaldt — 2 Comments

My novel in progress is set here in Appalachia a century ago, when dialect was strong. Which raises a constant writer’s dilemma: verisimilitude and historical accuracy versus out-of-area comprehension. One doesn’t want to replicate my grandfather/hamster confusion. I grew up…

Where invention comes from, maybe

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Pamela Schoenewaldt — 2 Comments

This the Palazzo Donn’Anna, in Naples, the memory of which launched my second historical novel, Swimming in the Moon (2013). My Italian teacher grew up in the vast apartment on the second floor, full of marble, Venetian glass, and monumental…

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Dialect and the hamster/grandfather issue

Where invention comes from, maybe