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Steven Pressfield on Writing Historical Fiction

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The History of the Stirrup

Fasteni has been reading about the history of the stirrup and how that anged. Do you ever think there is a subject matter expert out there somewhere who's reading this, and are you writing to satisfy them? Or just going to let them stew if they got toi don't worry. But going back just for a second to why the stirrup is so important, cause it's a great thing. It's like, before the stirrup, a man in armor couldn't ride, really ride a horse,. cause it was too heavy. And i'm inverting time by about 50 years, and i don't care. As long as it doesn't happen in the movie s

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