The worst writing you’ll ever do is what you write when you’ve got a history book in the other hand. The best is when your characters and their points of view are so alive to you that of course you write what they see and how they see it: their voices filling that panelled room or smoky alehouse. Story is king: it just happens that the stuff of your story comes from the past.
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Sunday Times bestselling historical novelist Emma Darwin at http://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/01/02/writing-historical-fiction-a-beginners-guide-by-emma-darwin
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