Ask the Author: Benjamin H. Barnette
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Benjamin H. Barnette
As the Crew Chief, flying in a B-52 on a bombing mission over Vietnam in 1968 and nearly all of the flight crew was drunk and being reasonably confident we would be shot down my a Surface to Air Missile (SAM).
Benjamin H. Barnette
The idea for "Winds Across Beringia," came in 1983 as I supervised an archeological field camp in Southwest Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea, so in that sense on Beringia. Myself and the other archeologist as well considered that we may be camped where the first Asian people walked from Beringia into Alaska and thus North America. What would their "mammoth hunting" life had been like on the landmass of Beringia now covered by the Bering Sea.
Benjamin H. Barnette
I often see it as a challenge and I enjoy a challenge.
Benjamin H. Barnette
(1) A fantasy novel titled "Ravenbourne." (2) A mystery story where the female protagonist (she has a male partner) tells the story in first person present. (3) A Native American historic-fiction where a Great Basin warrior travels to Chaco Canyon sometime around 1000 to 1200 A.D.
Benjamin H. Barnette
Do not necessarily try to follow a sequence. When inspired to write about your story, do so, without concern if you are writing about the beginning, end or middle of your story. Continue to write and decide where it may fit into your story on another day.
Benjamin H. Barnette
Do not necessarily try to follow a sequence. When inspired to write about your story, do so, without concern if you are writing about the beginning, end or middle of your story. Continue to write and decide where it may fit into your story on another day.
Benjamin H. Barnette
The ability to "generally" set your own hours and to write when inspired to do so regardless of the time of day.
Benjamin H. Barnette
Read from a favorite novel. Then, sometime later write what comes to mind weather related to the current project or not.
Benjamin H. Barnette
If this includes historic-fiction then North America to observe Paleo-Indian mammoth hunters or Troy during the Trojan War and talk with Achilles and Helen.
Benjamin H. Barnette
Several text on Great Basin and Southwest prehistory. "People of the Silence", by Michael and Kathleen Gear.
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