#because the current national park is fort stanwix
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The History Major instinct to add footnotes to my historical fiction novels because I feel guilty using my Creative License and am afraid no one will go read the Author’s Note at the end...
#the balance of historical fact and the fiction that makes it histfic with forever stall my writing process#no one understands how many times i have argued with myself over breed's hill/bunker hill#now i'm questioning myself for using fort schuyler instead of stanwix#because the current national park is fort stanwix#but they only named it that because they rebuilt the original fort that was there first#when it WAS fort stanwix#but in 1777 it was renamed fort schuyler for gen. philip schuyler because that's what armies did back then#primary sources mostly call it schuyler#some do still say stanwix#but a modern reader not really into the revwar history#is gonna be like wtf is fort schuyler#googling it brings up a totally different fort fyi#the answer is READ MY AUTHOR'S NOTE AT THE BACK#but will they?#this also applies to my 'i did my best at transcribing this' note on gen. greene's letter to congress about benedict arnold#because we can have hamilton's shit transcribed for all the world to read#but the letter i need to use for plot reasons#i gotta squint at and manipulate 17 ways because even pen men get sloppy when in a hurry#i need to take a break for tonight and get back to my emotional support paranormal romance writing
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