My time as a GTA has come to a close. As a final piece of advice to my students, I have offered them a “10 commandments” of sorts full of resources and advice. These have been gathered from every corner of my bookmarked web searches and inner thoughts.
Science is the only method people have developed where an essential element of the knowledge it produces is that it can be tested, and lasts as scientific knowledge only so long as it survives those tests. Accepting science requires the courage to know that every fact science accepts…
The beauty about writing historical fiction, I feel, is that you get to learn something while doing it…