What Is Historical Fiction?
I thought I would first show the definition of Historical Fiction to pinpoint what we are looking at exactly.
Historical, adj. 1. Of, relating to, or of the character of history. 2. Based on or concerned with events in history.
Fiction, n. 4.a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels, short stories, and plays.
Writing historical fiction is simply writing a story that is set in the past which is usually during a significant time period. For example, the Victorian Period is the period during Queen Victoria’s reign. I find this period particularly interesting and a favourite.
The main thing that I will learn in this course is to do research to come up with the correct setting based on facts. It can also include real people but does not necessarily have to.
When You are writing fiction, it is very important to do your homework so that you can really pinpoint the mannerisms, costumes, conditions, etc, in order to make the novel authentic. In fact, they also say that historical fiction novels can take years to write because of the amount of research you have to do when writing.
Historical writing includes historical figures placed in imaginary situations
Fictional characters placed in actual, factual historical periods of time or situations
(for example, you can place your fictional character “Alexandra” in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812); or you can have variations of both.
For example, you could place historical figures in settings they have been proven to have been in or fictional characters in fictional settings in a real period of history.
To recap, historical fiction is writing that is fictional but in which elements from history play the main roles.
When you choose to write historical fiction, you are doing two things at once – you are both the historian AND the storyteller. You are going to tell your readers what happened at the time and what it felt like.
We are going to explore the genre.
We will discuss the various subgenres, the types of characters and settings you may want to explore, character motivations, conflict, plot, plot mapping, editing, and pacing, plus agents, queries, and so much more.
You will walk away at the end of this course feeling as though you know exactly what you want to write and exactly how to write it.
I have submitted my Introduction online and written what book I want to write and then did a multiple choice exam at the end.
You may have to be a member of the City of Joondalup library to access the course.
It is under Online Resources in the Spydus catalogue.
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