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How to make sure the language in your historical #fantasy novel is period-accurate | Lauren Davis for i09 | craft, historical, #writing
Heraldry – The Basics. Pretty nifty reference when studying this time period.
Heraldry – The Basics. Pretty nifty reference when studying this time period.
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How to Set a Novel in an Unfamiliar Location | WritersDigest.com
For a fiction writer, weaving a real historical incident into my narrative posed an interesting challenge. Here’s what you should know.
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When writing a historical fiction for your novel, you might not need as many facts as you think!
When writing a historical fiction for your novel, you might not need as many facts as you think!
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Go Teen Writers: Writing Historical Fiction: Seven Tips From Author Diana Blackstone
Go Teen Writers: Writing Historical Fiction: Seven Tips From Author Diana Blackstone
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Creative Inspiration For Writing Historical Fiction
There’s a joke I’ve seen on Pinterest, a cartoon of a writer watching TV. The character says, “I’m researching!” to the cynical-looking people standing nearby. For those of us who write fiction, we know that watching TV or movies, listening to music, or going for walks really is research because all of it becomes part…
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Mass Observation Archive
The Mass Observation Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously since 1981. The Archive is a charitable trust in the care of the University of Sussex. It is housed at The Keep as part of the University’s Special Collections.
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On Researching and Historical Accuracy | Abandoned America by Matthew Christopher
Even the best efforts to research a site sometimes present inaccurate results – how does one deal with human error in historical writing?
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The Great Diary Project
The Great Diary Project has been set up to provide a permanent home for unwanted diaries of any date or kind.
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Let us Talk of Many Things; of Books and Queens and Pirates, of History and Kings…: In defence of the indefensible
The value of research when writing historical fiction — especially when children’s laws are concerned. https://t.co/3FkzmlKt0x
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75 Names of Unusual or Obsolete Occupations
The English language abounds with word describing occupations and professions that are rare or obsolete or are otherwise unusual and hence obscure. Here is an incomplete but extensive list of such terms, along with brief definitions. 1. ackerman: a plowman or oxherder 2.
Can a Historical Novel Also Be Serious Literature?
What Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel taught me about separating fact from fiction.
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How to Write Historical Fiction: 7 Tips on Accuracy and Authenticity
Susanna Calkins, author of the 2013 debut novel A MURDER AT ROSAMUND’S GATE, shares advice for writing about historical fiction.
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Eight Ways To Start Research For Your Historical Novel
As an editor I see books that are ruined by the lack of research for their content all the time. Her…
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Do Your Research Right When You’re Writing Historical Fiction
I’m not sure what historical novelists did before the advent of the Internet. What takes a matter of minutes to discover on the Internet today probably took hours of library work in the pre-Web Stone Age.
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The Truth is Quieter Than Fiction
The Truth is Quieter Than Fiction
By David O. Stewart
“An author who has written history and historical fiction talks about crossing the line between truth and fantasy.
As one of the small tribe of writers who produce both history and historical fiction, I’ve been gratified and surprised that crossing that line enriches both for me. Why? The silence.
We never know enough to tell a past story completely. Take James Madison or Aaron Burr, two men I’ve written about. They accomplished extraordinary deeds, yet each left but a few boxes of written records (especially the secretive Burr). Worse, written recollections may be wrong or reflect biases, while other sources are slim: we can only walk through landscapes that they knew, read what they read, and view objects they used. Compare those sources to the constant self-awareness that a fiction writer works with, then add in the surroundings and context, which the author knows intimately. The hush of history can be a pallid competitor with the cacophony of life as we live it…”
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Does Fiction Based on Fact Have a Responsibility to the Truth? – New York Times
“Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Thomas Mallon and Ayana Mathis discuss whether writers of historical fiction need to keep the facts in mind…”
The Past Made Flesh – Jerome de Groot muses on how authors of historical fiction try to flesh out the bare bones of history
By Jerome de Groot
“The historical novel can make the reader understand the bodily and create a kind of corporeal sympathy with the past. It can render something ‘richer, more complete’ in a way that mainstream historical accounts cannot.
One way that historical novels do this is by concentrating on bodies themselves and how they are turned back into skeletons without flesh. Historical detective and thriller fiction allows the author to reveal the workings of society and to highlight various differences between the then and now. It gives an impetus to the understanding of historical difference and allows a character to legitimately investigate the way that a society works. Ways of understanding, defining and punishing criminal mentality, action, and psychology are evidently historically contingent and criminological definitions and practices are hence fundamentally important in understanding pastness …”
History v historical fiction – The Guardian
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By Jane Smiley
“In the late 90s, when I first went blond, I was driving to Santa Anita racetrack and I turned into the wrong entrance. I told a guard that I was looking for the main entrance, and he leaned forward, and said in a loud, careful voice: “OK. Go back out the way you came in, and then turn LEFT” (he demonstrated how to turn left by holding out his arms and making a left-turn gesture), “and then turn LEFT again [same gesture], and THAT’S the entrance.” Big smile. I wondered for a moment why he was treating me like an idiot, and then I realised that I was now a blonde! Since I am very tall, always wear jeans and can scowl with the best of them, being condescended to, even mansplained to, is something I have rarely endured, but it happened again this week, on Radio 4’s Start the Week. Only this time I was not condescended to as a blonde, I don’t think, but as a novelist…”
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