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Grace H. Osborn
@gracehosborn.bsky.social
Historical Fiction writer telling epic stories from the 18th-19thC ✍🏻: an epic saga about Alexander Hamilton | Aspiring Historian | Visually impaired | Queer; Autistic

https://gracehosborn.carrd.co/
🧭Lost in Hamilton’s papers
So this is what happens when I listen to my gut and feel my way through a scene with many moving parts. How could I have possibly written so many words? 😂

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August 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Oh, the things you find while flipping through the index to investigate some primary sources for your series. 😂

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June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Yesterday turned into quite the writing session when I had to pull the brick of a book that is Gotham: A History of New York City To 1898 off my shelf to help with the setting of the chapter I’ve been working on. Lesson learned: setting is important!

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May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I absolutely love when, after reading a primary source for the first time, pieces of the plot puzzle for my Hamilton series click together clearly! It’s so satisfying.

Bonus: my cat decided she wanted to be a helper. 😊

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May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is just a “I got to write for the first time in forever” post! The chapter of my A. Hamilton #histfic novel I’ve been working on has required me to reference both an #18thC map & Revolutionary War muster roll; I love how Scrivener lets me do this seamlessly. 🥰
March 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I’ve been reading @williamhogeland.bsky.social’s “The Hamilton Scheme” to help take the first steps towards starting the outlining process for volume 4 of my #historicalfiction series about A.Ham, and the imagery in this paragraph made me laugh way too hard.

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March 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I thought that yesterday, my research session flipping through The Papers of William Livingston would take only a few minutes. It took around an hour, and I left the library more stuck on this TAI chapter than I was when I started. 😂
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March 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The amount of dedication I have for this novel: spending what has now become over an hour transcribing names off a 1776 muster roll--just for one chapter. The historian-in-training in me is coming out in full swing with this one.

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January 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Wrote enough words in my #WIP today that I reached a palindrome total word count!
It’s the little silly things that make me smile. 😊

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January 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I feel like it was inevitable that my attempt at a late-night research clarification session for TAI: Vol. I would lead me here, flipping through a modern bio and two volumes of AH’s papers. The joys of trying to resolve a plot conundrum….

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January 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Those moments when you own so many books that you forgot you had one sitting on the shelf, waiting to be plucked for this exact moment when the problem you’ve now run into with your novel has you stuck. 😂

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December 31, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Made the classic mistake of walking into Half Price Books declaring that I wasn’t going to buy anything. But here we are. Absolutely loved the HBO miniseries, so I thought I’d finally pick up the bio it was based upon. Then I spotted the letters; my love of primary sources couldn’t resist the urge.
December 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
I just love when I find these little historical nuggets. Perfect way to open one of the last chapters of this novel if you ask me.

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December 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
We’re getting serious now with a deadline…. Maybe? ‘Tis self-imposed, but I finally think it’s time I try to hold myself accountable to finishing this draft. And, tonight’s session already has me four days ahead of my goal! So maybe writing non-linearly will prove beneficial?

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December 19, 2024 at 5:14 AM
My cat decided that she needed to help me write this chapter. Unfortunately, I have to report that many of her ideas (read: hand rubs) have not been very helpful, but the thought is appreciated.

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December 18, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Broke ground on Chapter 47 and the date and location marker are chunkier than I had anticipated, but pacing demands. Hopefully it’ll be worth it. I’m super excited for this one, though Alexander surely will not be.

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December 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Since it’s the holiday season, and my current chapter has been giving me grief for literal months, I thought I’d switch things up and pull these out to work on a big chapter of TAI that just might get my juices flowing again….

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December 17, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Hi, everyone! 👋
Thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Grace, and am currently working on an epic historical fiction saga about Alexander Hamilton. I love chocolate, the American Revolution, and cats!
You can find my website, quarterly newsletter, and other socials here: gracehosborn.carrd.co
December 17, 2024 at 12:32 AM