I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
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One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
I just love historical fiction.
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