Once Upon a Time It Was Now
The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
Published on 1. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-68157-051-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 Once Upon a Time It Was Now, 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:
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Language
English
Place of publication
Indianapolis
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68157-051-8 (9781681570518)
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