Grindstone

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=185 BGCOLOR="#003366" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="02d00b90dkcfqa.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travelogue...Its All about the Car"><U><B>Home</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="On the Road Archive"><U><B>On the Road Archive</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Cars"><U><B>Cars</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="shotgun.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Canon Road trips"><U><B>Shotgun</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="tune_up_shop.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writers Resources"><U><B>Tune-Up</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="characters.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Character Info"><U><B>Passengers</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="caravan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Archive Links"><U><B>Caravan</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Site"><U><B>The Site</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="new_model.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Updates"><U><B>New Model</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="mailto:shrinkingbanshee@msn.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:shrinkingbanshee@msn.com"><U><B>Contact</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=295 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>You are about to be redirected to Travelogue's new ad-free home. Hang on or click here...</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.fangedfour.com/travelogue" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fangedfour.com/travelogue"><U><B>http://www.fangedfour.com/travelogue</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=http://www.fangedfour.com/travelogue"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Getting Back to the Grindstone - Writing Other-whens.</B></div> <div> <B>by </B><A HREF="mailto:rabbit.hole@virgin.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:rabbit.hole@virgin.net"><U><B>Josey</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> As has been said, `The past is a foreign country', thus an essay on researching historical fiction has as much place on the Travelogue as any other, as the methods used can be applied equally to either case. </div> <bR> <div> Having said that I am not going to give you instructions on how to do it, rather I will tell you how I do it because, like sex, there really is no right or wrong way to res <FRAMESET FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0 ROWS=" 185,*">