And That's How I Start Myself. I

The Other Mammoths Were As Protective Of The Dying As They Were Of Newborns, And They Gathered Around Tying To Make The Fallen One Get Up. When All Was Over, They Buried The Dead Ancestor Under Piles Of Dirt, Grass, Leaves, Or Snow. Mammoths Were Even Known To Bury Other Dead Animals, Including Humans.

Though My Books Are Written From A Historical Perspective, I Have Goon So Far Back That I Am In The Realm Of Prehistorical Speculation Rather Than Simple Historical Fact To Weave My Stories Around.

And That's How I Start Myself. I Usually Go Back A Couple Of Pages, Maybe To The Beginning Of The Chapter, And I Start Reading. And As I'm Reading, I'm Tweaking - Putting In A Different Word, Changing The Syntax, Putting That Clause Over There, You Know That Sort Of Thing.

I'm Just Writing A Story That I Want To Read.

I Probably Read 100 Times More Than I Write, But That Way When I Move My Characters Through It, I Know.