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The Art And Craft Of Writing Historical Fiction (2010)

by James Alexander Thom(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1582975698 (ISBN13: 9781582975696)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Writer's Digest Books

review 1: If you are interested in writing historical fiction in 18th and 19th century America, this book may provide some help for you. However, Persia Wooley's book on writing historical fiction was more thorough and helpful re: the details of writing any kind of historical fiction.This author spends a lot of time discussing the books he has written and the books other writers that he knows have written. Not particularly helpful. I really learned nothing new from this.
review 2: I enjoyed this book, but felt the author talked too much about his own historical writings. I also believe some of his research methods are outdated. He talks about using index cards for research and going to a library. Every bit of this can be done online and there are writing programs that... more function in the same way as index cards. He did have good advice about seeing history in a new way and not always believing the research you read.All in all, somewhat helpful. less

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