Twelve books a year doesn’t trouble me anymore, but it did at the time. I found myself floundering beneath the burden of various competing obligations, some mandatory, some discretionary, and that reading, my oldest pastime, had fallen far by the wayside.
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That is to say, beginning with a book that provides a broad overview of the historical era in question.
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.
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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.
