Once upon a Time It Was Now - Couverture souple

Thom, James Alexander

 
9781681570518: Once upon a Time It Was Now
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1681570513 ISBN 13 : 9781681570518
Editeur : Blue River Press, 2017

Synopsis

While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not. In this book best-selling author James Alexander Thom ( Follow the River , From Sea to Shining Sea , Sign-Talker ) gives you the tools you need to research and create stories born from the past that will move and inspire modern readers. His comprehensive approach includes lessons on how to: Find and use historical archives and conduct physical field research; Re-construct the world of your novel, including people and voices, physical environments, and cultural context; Achieve verisimilitude in speech, action, setting, and description; Seamlessly weave historical fact with your own compelling plot ideas. With wit and candour, Thom's detailed instruction, illuminating personal experience, and invaluable insights culled from discussions with other trusted historical writers will guide you to craft a novel that is true to what was then, when then was now.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not. In this book best-selling author James Alexander Thom (“Follow the River”,”From Sea to Shining Sea”, “Sign-Talker”) gives you the tools you need to research and create stories born from the past that will move and inspire modern readers. His comprehensive approach includes lessons on how to: Find and use historical archives and conduct physical field research; Re-construct the world of your novel, including people and voices, physical environments, and cultural context; Achieve verisimilitude in speech, action, setting, and description; Seamlessly weave historical fact with your own compelling plot ideas. With wit and candour, Thom's detailed instruction, illuminating personal experience, and invaluable insights culled from discussions with other trusted historical writers will guide you to craft a novel that is true to what was then, when then was now.

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Éditeur
Blue River Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1681570513
ISBN 13 
9781681570518
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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