Avoiding anachronisms is one challenge of writing fiction using real people and events from the past. The other is bargaining with yourself about how true to history you need to be. Journey, American begins in World War I, then continues through the ragged glory of the American Century. I have only begun to introduce characters (this is difficult for me because I tend to write in the style of Raymond Carver having learned the beauty of brevity writing and writing thousands of inches of sports copy in Conyers, Georgia - a long gone world where nothing that existed then, exists today.
How True Must Historic Fiction Be?
How True Must Historic Fiction Be?
How True Must Historic Fiction Be?
Avoiding anachronisms is one challenge of writing fiction using real people and events from the past. The other is bargaining with yourself about how true to history you need to be. Journey, American begins in World War I, then continues through the ragged glory of the American Century. I have only begun to introduce characters (this is difficult for me because I tend to write in the style of Raymond Carver having learned the beauty of brevity writing and writing thousands of inches of sports copy in Conyers, Georgia - a long gone world where nothing that existed then, exists today.