![]() Sometimes stuff just “comes to you.” This was one of those times. ![]() “The book is done, it’s fine the way it is, it’s too much work to come up with something new, I don’t wanna do it.”īut about a week later I had an idea for a scene. Please write one more scene that’s just about the women.” They called me into their office and begged me to give them one more scene. But I had two female editors, Kate Miciak and Nita Taublib. And I had no idea that it would evoke that response. Clearly it’s the single scene in the book that touches readers most. I’ve gotten more letters and e-mails about this scene than any other. There’s a scene in the book, a fictional scene, that involves the women of Sparta. Let me tell you a writer’s story, about my own experience writing Gates of Fire, about the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae. Paraleia, a Spartan woman, in Gates of Fire ![]() “These are the last tears of mine, my lord, that the sun will ever see.” ![]()
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