“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair—the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart…Come to it anyway, but lightly. You must not come lightly to the blank page.” Stephen King Agreed. The blank page must be taken seriously. I will never forget the day I decided to begin my first historical novel, Winds of L’Acadie. The idea of telling the story of the deportation of the Acadians in a novel seemed a daunting task. Still, the idea had been percolating for quite a while and I had done a lot of preliminary research. I…