Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.