How is your writing coming?
I made the 9-hour or so trip to see my youngest daughter and
stayed with her for 15 days. Did I do much writing? No, but I did some reading.
Stephen King, in On Writing, advises that reading is as important to writing as
writing is. Look how much he has written! I guess he would have a pretty good
idea about that.
I’m in the middle of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series…The
Pillars of Creation. It’s actually book seven of 12, I think. He tells a good
story. And I keep trying to figure out things like:
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Is he telling the story of Ancient Greece?
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Is the Keep actually the Bible? The U.S.
Constitution?
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Is this about paganism and the development of
the patriarchal religions?
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Or is it just a good story?
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Is this what William Shakespeare did? Wrote his
version of events in history?
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How can I make these ideas work for me?
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What happens if you read about an historical
moment and using “what if” questions, set that story in a different time and
place? Using poetic license what can happen on the page?
We can only try and see how it works. Let me know what
happens with your experiment. Your comments are invited and welcome.
© 2013 Cathy Thomas Brownfield ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
1 comment:
Dale brought me a book I desperately needed for my CW research. He said "you've been working on that book the entire ten years I've known you and you say you have to do more research.Why don't you just fake it?"
I told him you can't fake a historical novel because most of the readers are up to date on the times in historical novels, especially a Civil War novel. they would spot fakery immediately, and probably throw the book away.
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