Writing

  • Surviving a Medieval Dungeon

    ByJessica Trapp

    Unlike today’s jails, where nutrition is monitored by law and three meals a day are served to inmates, surviving a medieval dungeon had unique challenges. Prisoners lacked basic necessities. Unless one’s family or friends brought sustenance, ale, and clean water, captives had no provisions. They had to pay for food, bedding and heat. Dungeons were…

  • Writing Process

    ByJessica Trapp

    I would love to say I hop out of bed, wide awake at 5am, and have a standard, structured, set routine for my writing, but at best my writing process is wobbly. At worst, it’s papers piled all over my desk and files in seven or eight different folders. I depend heavily on meeting writing…