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Steven Pressfield on Writing Historical Fiction

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The Mc Guffin in a Novel

The book is set a few years after the crucifixion in judea. It centered around the delivery of the apostle paul's letter to the corinthian church. The mc guffin comes from alfred hitchcock and is what the villain wants, he says. "This was like the equivalent of the nuclear bomb in that era"

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