Today's Theme: People Hiding In Other People's Houses
Happy accidents play a certain role in writing. While working on Locksmith’s War, I tried to type the words “hiding in the attic” (a phrase which the character in question was texting) and it came out “hiding in the attack.” I realized this was exactly the sort of mistake a phone’s autocorrect would make, so I threw it in and made it part of the story. (That’s why Chapter 6 is called “Hiding in the Attack.”)
Something similar happened while I was trying to write a scene in
Books I'm Reading
So with all this writing I’m doing, what am I reading? Here are some of the things:
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
I looked for this book after meeting the author’s son at a social function. It takes place in World War II, in 1943 when the Italian campaign is just beginning, and it’s about an Italian-American major who’s put in charge of a small coastal town in Sicily. It won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
A Bell for Adano doesn’t go into the political events of t
