Recently, while I was working on the edits for my current work in progress, I made the following changes for the sake of historical accuracy, as my fantasy series takes place in an alternate version of northern Europe in the sixth century CE: I removed all instances of the word ‘orange’ from the current story … Continue reading Historical Adequacy and Me
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Historical Fiction
Historical: (hiˈstôrək(ə)l) - of or concerning history; concerning past events; belonging to the past, not the present; (especially of a novel or movie) set in the past Fiction: (fikSH(ə)n) - literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people; invention or fabrication as opposed to fact; a … Continue reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Historical Fiction
Traveling in Books 