You also have to present a well-constructed setting that captures the culture, customs, details, and ethos of the historical period in question. In this way, histfic genre conventions have as much in common with an honours-level history class as with any other genre of fiction.
(Continued from Part 1)
I am not one of those writers, to my great and ongoing dismay.
It’s time for me to make account of my progress on my New Year’s Resolutions for 2019.
Not just those pertaining to good writing in general—and I made those big time—but also those specific to historical fiction in particular.
Not literally; I’ve never met or communicated with the renowned author and screenwriter personally.
However in her bestselling creative self-help book/program The Artist’s Way, which I completed in 2011, she advocates a practice of “morning pages”—three handwritten, stream-of-consciousness pages of journaling first thing every morning.
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
He’s right in more ways than one. The tools that reading has to offer are numerous.
Also, that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
However negatively this mantra tends to be received, especially online, I am here for it because for me, I have a pretty good track record of making it work.
“The only thing worse than having no man is having a useless one.”
Janna G. Noelle 