Jan 23, 2019A Hobson’s Choice, or not.As discussed in the previous blog, The Home Guard opens when Carter Barnwell and his grandmother “Missma” escape to the family hunting...
Jan 17, 2019A Nod to the ElderlyA central character in The Home Guard is Martha “Missma” Gibbes Barnwell, Carter Barnwell’s eighty year old grandmother. It is, after...
Jan 8, 2019Channeling FaulknerWilliam Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” We in the South may have a greater appreciation for that...
Jan 3, 2019Plotting the PlotIn my prior blog, I wrote about inspiration. Today, the subject is plot. The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War, is a coming-of-age...
