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Seven Rules for Writing Historical Fiction
By Elizabeth Crook · 19 years ago
We grow up being told to “write” what we “know”, but history is the unknown. You have to learn almost everything about a period and the social customs just to get your characters out of ...
In Search of Real Gardens: A Novelist’s Onsite Research
By Elizabeth Cunningham · 19 years ago
“A fairytale is an imaginary garden with real toads in it.” I don’t know the source of this quotation, but I take it as my starting point for this account, because the opposite definition applies ...