The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.