Today I’m taking time away from the keyboard to visit the 2nd battalion of the 95th Rifles as they do a re-enactment of the way soldiers lived and fought in the Peninsular War (about two hundred years ago).
I shall be taking my camera, but also shamelessly begging any chance to get my hands onto some of the weapons. For a writer opportunities to feel, smell, taste, and hear, are as as important as seeing.
Ten years from now any pictures I take today will be just pictures, unless I’ve also personally absorbed the memories of the sounds, smells, etc. If so then a look at the pictures will bring it all back if I need to write an appropriate scene.
Apart from which I intend to enjoy myself anyway. ”Man cannot live by work alone.”
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