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Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom
ISBN: 9781582975696
Format: Paperback
Publisher:F&W Publications Inc
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The historical novelist has a responsibility to make his fiction both meaningful and accurate. This title offers comprehensive instruction ranging from conducting research to character development and world-building to navigating matters of historical license. It instructs readers on how to find and use historical archives.
The historical novelist has a responsibility to make his fiction both meaningful and accurate. "The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction" offers comprehensive instruction on everything from conducting research to character development and world-building to navigating matters of historical license. Author James Thom instructs readers on how to find and use historical archives; conduct physical and field research; re-create the world of their novel, as the book's characters knew it; and, seamlessly weave historical fact with their own compelling plot ideas.
| ISBN | 1582975698 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9781582975696
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | F&W Publications Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 299 | | Imprint | Writer's Digest Books | | Published in | Ohio | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 214 | | Publication date | 28 May 2010 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 808.381 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Preface: Once Upon a Time It Was Now | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | In the River of Time | | 3 | | Ch. 2 | | History: A Distillation of Rumor | | 11 | | Ch. 3 | | A Catalytic Remark | | 21 | | Ch. 4 | | Modifying the Truth | | 34 | | Ch. 5 | | Searching and Researching | | 53 | | Ch. 6 | | Old Stuff in a New Package: History in the Computer Age | | 81 | | Ch. 7 | | Genealogy Is Like the Potato | | 93 | | Ch. 8 | | Taming Your Research Data | | 118 | | Ch. 9 | | It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | | 136 | | Ch. 10 | | Ain't Like It Used to Was | | 150 | | Ch. 11 | | Songs, Smells, and Sensations | | 167 | | Ch. 12 | | Catching the Historians | | 181 | | Ch. 13 | | How Much Credibility? | | 195 | | Ch. 14 | | What's Then Got to Do With Now? | | 208 | | Ch. 15 | | How Not to Write Historical Fiction | | 216 | | Ch. 16 | | Around the Fire | | 231 | | | | Index | | 244 |
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