Thinking back, I assume I always loved history. But there had to be a point where something clicked in me as a kid and I ran with it.
The other day I was reading a nonfic book on ancient Rome, and it came to me. I think I was in middle school and we were doing ancient Rome, and we were in all the complicated stuff about the late Republic. That's when I learned how Sulla walked away from his dictatorship. I remember thinking nobody walks away from power like that. What kind of man would do that? So off I went to learn about Sulla (fascinating guy). But to understand him, I had to get to Marius, and to understand him, go back to the Gracchi brothers. To get the consequences of Sulla, I had to flash forward to Caesar.
That was it. How my lifelong love of history started. With one fascinating personality from the past. (If I dared, I'd write a Sulla novel, but probably couldn't do it justice.)
What hooked you? Or why do you write in the period you do?
The other day I was reading a nonfic book on ancient Rome, and it came to me. I think I was in middle school and we were doing ancient Rome, and we were in all the complicated stuff about the late Republic. That's when I learned how Sulla walked away from his dictatorship. I remember thinking nobody walks away from power like that. What kind of man would do that? So off I went to learn about Sulla (fascinating guy). But to understand him, I had to get to Marius, and to understand him, go back to the Gracchi brothers. To get the consequences of Sulla, I had to flash forward to Caesar.
That was it. How my lifelong love of history started. With one fascinating personality from the past. (If I dared, I'd write a Sulla novel, but probably couldn't do it justice.)
What hooked you? Or why do you write in the period you do?