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Historical fiction is based on a real life event or a real life person. Such as "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Speculative fiction is based on a "what if" such as "What if the South had won the American Civil War" Genre may chuck it all and be based on some loose idea like...

That's because they didn't have cable TV or the internet...among their other blessings.

Not since the "Statue of Limitations" expired. The pigeons are weeping.

That follows historical precident. Look what happened to viewer numbers as each Walden Media movie was announced.

It will be pop-pop-POPular once again when Netflix gets rolling.

Once I invited a lot of my friends to a Narnia themed banquet. Problem is, I left to get more punch and when I came back the guests were all turned to stone with looks of horror on their face. I don't know witch person did that, but it cost me a bundle to have 1-800-GOT-JUNK to carry all those...

Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe....definitely the song "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" Maybe in Prince Caspian have the Bulgy Bears sing, "The Bear Necessities" from Jungle Book to cheer up Peter.

For anyone who's never seen me in an alb, this is me on Maundy Thursday 2020. Before my cataract surgery, hence the glasses.

I am so sorry. I will add this to my prayer list.

Those notes were 10 years old. It's hard to believe it, but some of my threads are 21 years old.

ESPECIALLY if you do so over an audio-only connection. Then you can claim to be in a suit of armor while you're in your cottontail pajamas by occasionally shaking a tin pie plate. ;-)))

Great. A modern english translation of the Chronicles of Narnia without the thee's and thou's. ;-)

If you want to do historical fiction based on the real Narnia, it's located in Italy. The lands mentioned in the Chronicles of Narnia aren't italian speaking and don't have a real history, I fear....

It is the real pub. I have often said that if those walls had ears...they'd look really creepy....

No, not even by the most conservative of young earther's estimates. However it does last for a very long time. It is precisely because the books all center on world-threatening crises that are ATYPICAL of life in Narnia that the vast majority of my stories concentrate on what came...

Spiderman should have looked up his identity on the web. ;-)

No, I was just saying why some stories seem so rich in detail that they are lifelike.

I remember when you were Shasta of the Eight Realms. Seems you've been busy.... ;-)

I've met everyone. Once in Saint Peter's Square I stood next to the pope on the balcony and people were pointing and asking, "Who's that man next to EveningStar???"

Serious authors who aren't in it just for the money put a lot of themselves into a story. The characters are people who have to use my mind and heart because they lack one of their own, but the thoughts and feelings are--in their own way--real. When I finished "The Visitor" early this year, the...