Who is Pat Carr?

Pat Carr is an authorof short stories. I found a site where she was interviewed on her book entitled "Death of a Confederate Colonel". ---quote--- Most authors who use the Civil War in fiction write novels.

Why did you choose to write short stories? While I am writing a novel set in the Civil War, I see short fiction and longer narratives as having completely different functions. For me, novels must contain a vast core event—those encompassing actions of life and death, love and betrayal in War and Peace, Crime and Punishment or the social novels of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Trollope, or the picaresque adventures in Tom Jones.

Short stories focus on intimate personal triumphs and defeats, those moments of awareness Joyce called ‘epiphanies,’ after which nothing in the lives of the characters will ever be the same. I think both are equally important, and I wanted to capture the moments with this particular book. ---end of quote.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.