Historical Fiction
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- With apologies to Freud — make sure you know your cigars: I’m sure you’ve heard that famous quote attributed to Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” I don’t know the context of the quote, in fact I’ve seen [...]
- I highly recommend you take a look at this Audie Murphy site: I highly recommend that you take a look at this “Audie L. Murphy Memorial Website,” for a full account of this remarkable man. As a follow-up on my last post, [...]
- Some thoughts about fictionalizing real-life public figures: I’m reading a well-written adventure novel right now by Stephen Hunter and want to share some thoughts about fictionalizing real-life characters. One of the characters he created in the book [...]
- More about doing research when writing fiction: I enjoy reading — and have tried my hand at writing — historical novels. For many years, as those of you know who’ve been around this site much, I fiddled [...]
- Writing Historical Fiction Part 3: Good sources are everywhere: One of the best resources I’ve found for the sort of research I’ve used when writing historical fiction is a set of books that were published in the 1980s and [...]
- Writing Historical Fiction Part 2: Finding story ideas is one benefit of doing historical research: A few years ago I was taking a graduate level course in Mexican history and ran onto the perfect idea for a historical novel set in 1785-86 in the region [...]
- Writing Historical Fiction Part 1: How much research is enough?: If you’ve written a novel or ever studied novel writing, you know the term “back story” and how important that is to the development of the novel. The “back story” [...]
