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@rochellaine O I love that era as well! Must be even more fun when the stories take place in the time that the writers lived. That’s a nice way to do research 🙂 And yes! Selah mentioned Gutenburg to me. I’ve already looked around a bit and it doesn’t seem to be a problem in my country. It’s a great resource!

Currently I don’t have a WIP. Terrible, I know. I’ve been going through a writer’s block. It’s just that I like so many time periods that I’m not sure what I should go for. I haven’t had that dash of inspiration for a certain story yet. I am however working on a children’s picture book that I’m writing and illustrating myself. In the meantime I’m figuring out what I want to write a novel about.

How about you? What’s the story you’re working on about? Do you first think of a story idea and put it in the time period you like, or do you research a time period and come up with a story idea from that?

@Ashira That’s a tough subject to write about! I actually read a book about Hizkia, written by Lynn Austin, a few weeks ago. It takes place when Hizkia is still young and it includes scenes in which children are sacrificed to moloch. I think the key to writing about this subject is to not get to graphic. Lynn Austin writes about the act itself, but she never describes how the flames burn the children. Instead she writes how scared the children are, how awfully the fire smells, how blinded the moloch priests were to their terrible deeds. This is enough to make me shiver as a reader.