![]() ![]() Don’t make the frame so pretty and elaborate that it detracts from the people. The people in the frame are where you need to focus most of your time, energy and pages. Think of your research as a frame that surrounds and enhances your story. ![]() She’s buying your novel because she wants to read a compelling story about fascinating people. She doesn’t want a lengthy treatise about jousting, feasting, armor, herbs, the Crusades, or the king’s problems with his vassals. She knows where those are shelved in the bookstore and if she wanted one, she would buy one. Your reader is not looking for a history textbook. The more fascinated you are by the time period you’ve chosen, the more careful you need to be. If you love history, it’s easy to get happily lost in research-and never be heard from again. The historical novel can be dangerous territory. “Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it and never read on a subject ’till you have thought yourself hungry on it.”īe warned, ye who enter here. ![]()
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