Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction

Name: Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781473609662
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By Emma Darwin

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Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction by Emma Darwin is a practical guide for aspiring authors eager to craft stories set in the past. The book offers clear advice on researching, plotting, and developing authentic characters and settings that capture historical voices. Designed to inspire creativity and build confidence, it features writing exercises and key ideas to help you quickly start writing rich, immersive historical fiction.
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This book is ideal for beginner and intermediate writers interested in historical fiction, whether they admire authors like Alan Furst and Philippa Gregory or have their own preferred eras and styles. It suits anyone looking to master storytelling techniques and research skills essential for bringing past worlds to life.

A comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing historical fiction, with practical tips, exercises, and expert advice.

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Do you have a compelling vision for a story set in the past? Are you inspired by novelists such as Alan Furst and Philippa Gregory? Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction is designed for anyone who wants to write in this exciting and wide-ranging genre of fiction, whatever your favourite style and era.

Designed to build your confidence and help fire up creativity, this book is an essential guide to mastering the practicalities of writing historical fiction. It shows you where to start with research, how to develop your plots, and how to convincingly and imaginatively capture the voices of the past.

Using Snapshots designed to get you writing quickly, Key Ideas to help crystallise thought, and a wealth of supplementary materials, this indispensable guide will have you telling amazing and rich historical stories in no time. You'll learn to research and plan your story, practise developing characters and settings, perfect your characters' voices, and transport the reader to another era.

ABOUT THE SERIES

The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their stories. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises, and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community, at tyjustwrite.com, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473609662

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 March 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Teach Yourself

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 164.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Emma Darwin is the author of the historical novels The Mathematics of Love and A Secret Alchemy, and her short fiction has been published and broadcast. She has appeared at literary festivals from Hay on Wye to New Zealand, she has taught creative writing for many institutions including the Open University, and she blogs at This Itch of Writing. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin.