A List of Characters from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Bezukhovs Count Cyril Bezukhov Count Pyotr Kirillovich (Pierre) Bezukhov, his son Princess Catiche, Pierre’s cousin The Rostovs Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov Countess Nataly Rostova, his wife Count Nikolai (Nicholas) Ilyich Rostov, their elder son Peter Ilyich (Petya) Rostov, their second son Countess Vera [...]

I’m currently in the early stages of actually writing my novel Hell has its Demons at the moment. Because of the complexity of writing within a historical background I have been taking a carefully planned approach to writing and employing the techniques of the snowflake method, where you build up the plot structure of the [...]

I am happy to announce that I am progressing at a reasonably steady pace on Hell has its Demons. I have finished my character dossiers and I am now on the pleasant task of writing chapter summaries. Each of these includes notes on what happens in the chapter, what the main conflicts are, how the [...]