Once upon a time it was now : the art and craft of writing historical fiction

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Once upon a time it was now : the art and craft of writing historical fiction

Title remainder

the art and craft of writing historical fiction

Statement of responsibility

James Alexander Thom

Creator

• Thom, James Alexander

Author

• Thom, James Alexander

Subject

• Historical fiction -- Authorship

Language

eng

Summary

Historical fiction writers and historians are not the same. While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist sets readers directly in the past and shows them forward. The job of a historical fiction writer is to make readers feel the victories and defeats, joys and pains, as if they were there. James Alexander Thom guides aspiring writers through the creation of historical fiction. He includes tips on problems many writers face, including: how much credibility is too much?; telling facts from opinions and seeing through the bias; knowing when to embellish and when not to; researching with archives, genealogy, site visits, journals, and memories. Highlighted with humor and personal anecdotes, Thom's detailed guides uses invaluable insights from himself and other historians and historical novelists to help the reader create a novel that is true to what was then, when then was now

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

808.3/81

Index

index present

LC call number

PN3377.5.H57

LC item number

T48 2017

Literary form

non fiction