Janine is Writing

Christian 🇺🇸 🤍 🇮🇱 - Account with news about writing, history, and other creative topics. Am attempting political detox. Matthew 6:25-34.

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

I started writing in May 2019 with fanfiction for the television show Monk. I wrote or co-wrote 15 stories for Monk and 5 (or almost 5—my original is still a WIP) for When Calls the Heart. In that time, I cannot tell you the copious hours I spent not only researching the shows’ canons but also the historical realities of the topics I tackled. In “Mr. Monk and the Monster Maker,” for instance, I did a deep dive into transhumanism and CRISPR technology, as well as the subtopic of “editing out” genetic variations such as those that cause Down syndrome. When writing When Calls the Heart fiction, I studied everything from the type of car Lucas drove at the time to the main players in American bootlegging in 1920. We won’t mention how close some of my storylines came to what eventually aired on television. In all, I have written around 1.8 million words of story since 2019, so I have learned a lot along the way.

But today is a new day. As of this juncture, I’ve left creating new fanfiction behind (I will still finish Hearts Heal Stronger, but it will take some time) and am pursuing my debut novel, Josiah’s War. Writing professionally, I’ve discovered, is an entirely different ballgame from writing fanfiction. Fanfiction was a marvelous training ground, and I’ll always appreciate my loyal readers over the years for teaching me so much about storytelling. But now comes the discipline.

I’ve never been great with punctuation. I tend to be wordy (no comments, @kelleysgirl), and until now my stories have focused on characters created by other writers. So bringing you Josiah Pierce and Emma Lawrence is something I am very excited to do.

But given that this is historical fiction, it requires a massive amount of research and documentation to support the story. AI is helpful in pointing me in the right direction (particularly Claude), but each fact must be sourced because AI also hallucinates facts, which can cause a lot of rework if you’re not careful.

As an aside and for the record, I have rules set up with AI that it is not to do any writing or plotting for me. If it tries to get out of line, I stop it. As a human writer, I understand emotion is more than language patterns, and where I take my characters isn’t something AI could have dreamt up. Still, for research and for my prototype cover—which I will have done by a human artist if I publish independently or which will be replaced by a publishing company—it’s a useful tool.

Regardless, this venture is a lot of work. On this X page I will be sharing some of that research. History is fascinating, and I hope to bring it to life—along with its questions and answers—with Josiah’s War sometime within the next year or so (traditional publishing can take years, so we’ll see where God takes this). I hope you’ll stay with me on this journey and look forward to conversing with those who are interested.

Janine

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A pile of human bones and skulls at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland, in 1944.

Never forget.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

World War 1 veterans asked what they thought about the film 'All Quiet On The Western Front' (1930)

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.

Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

This is why Jews say “Never again.”

[Jew in a Canoe ✡️🇨🇦 memoir now available! @WillieHandler]

Some Holocaust deniers use the fact that concentration camp tattoos only go to 6 digits as proof that 6 million Jews couldn't have died in the Holocaust.

Tattooed numbers were used only in one German Nazi camp: Auschwitz. These tattoos were assigned exclusively to prisoners who were registered in the camp. Out of approximately 1.3 million people deported to Auschwitz, only about 400,000 were registered as prisoners and given numbers.

The vast majority of Jews murdered in Auschwitz, around one million people, were never registered; they were murdered in gas chambers right upon arrival and received no tattooed number.

Moreover, tattoos were not exclusive to Jewish prisoners. Others, including Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, and others, were also registered and tattooed at Auschwitz. Other concentration camps had entirely different systems for identifying prisoners and did not use tattoos at all.

To suggest that every Jewish victim of the Holocaust received a tattooed number, and to use the limited length of those numbers to cast doubt on the scale of the genocide, is not only factually false. This kind of distortion is a deliberate tactic used by Holocaust deniers to insult the memory of victims.

In the world of deniers, the suffering of real human beings is reduced to cynical wordplay and harassment. Denying is an assault on memory, truth, and human dignity.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

Trump V Hillary was not the dirtiest election

In 1800, a sitting president ran against his own VP

They said he had a "hideous hermaphroditical character"

His side fired back over a "Congo harem"

They wrote the Declaration together...

Here's how the friendship broke:

🧵1/6

[La China @ChinaNipona]

Disney nos vendió la misma animación durante años...

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@canopycritique I am already gathering a diverse group of vetted folks. Thank you for the offer.

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

I am heading into the home stretch with my novel. Draft 1 should be complete sometime in July, then off to beta readers. Many steps to go after that, but I'll be very excited to present the end product to you. Stay tuned to this spot for additional information on Josiah's War: A Long Silent Night.

Image Source, Chat GPT AI. Used as inspiration artwork only. Final product is 100% human authored and images will either be contracted by a publisher or, if self-published, created by a human artist.

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@DolapoHikm56625 I appreciate the offer, but I don't accept cold solicitations for reading. But thank you anyway.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[Terry Whalin @terrywhalin]

"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses."
-- Alphonse Karr

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

Pullman Company passenger carriage, United States, 19th–20th century

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@RGRyan777 Don't show the picture to Bobby Kennedy. He'll want to move in ;)

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@DolapoHikm56625 No. It's still being written. I have a couple of Alphas currently giving me feedback.

[Sarah Sundin @sarahsundin]

Today in #WWII History: 85 Years Ago—June 8, 1941: British, Australians, and Free French invade (Vichy French) Syria and Lebanon from Palestine. [📷Australian troops, Sidon, Lebanon, July 1941] #TDIH #OTD https://t.co/kSeoY8k5Zi

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@markemusgames Thank you!

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@DolapoHikm56625 Christian Historical Fiction is the base genre, although I always interweave other elements such as suspense, politics, and romance. Josiah's War has all of the above and is broad enough that I believe non-Christians will also enjoy it.

[Janine is Writing @JanineisWriting]

@MrSharonSolomon @Zxckarie @MOSSADil I have no doubt that Nazi's escaped to South America. I do not believe Hitler did. DNA evidence seems to prove that conclusively.