I’m here in Denver attending the Historical Novelist Society Conference, and today we learned about sword fighting from historical author and actor, David Blixt. Such a bold statement. It takes more than an afternoon to transform a group of historical novelists into sword fighters, but we did get a flavour for it thanks to David’s workshop, and here are some things I learned. Historical writers are blood thirsty people. When shown a hundred ways to kill, maim, and disembowel, did we toss up our excellent lunch? Heck no! After the “Oooh’s” and “Ahh’s” we demanded more details, such as how…