The wolf had begun hunting human prey. They were plentiful in the dark city streets and provided enough good meat to satiate his gnawing hunger. He was still very careful not to let any who saw him live. To do otherwise would displease the Master. He would only stalk those people that were foolish enough to walk alone in the night
Lucia Robson's facts can be trusted if, say, you're a teacher assigning her novels as supplemental reading in a history class. __esearching as meticulously as a historian is not an obligation but a necessity,_ she tells me. __ut I research differently from most historians. I'm looking for details of daily life of the period that might not be important to someone tightly focused on certain events and individuals. Novelists do take conscious liberties by depicting not only what people did but trying to explain why they did it.__he adds, __ depend on the academic research of others when gathering material for my books, but I don't think that my novels should be considered on par with the work of accredited historians. I wouldn't recommend that historians cite historical novels as sources.__nd they sure don't. They wouldn't risk the scorn of their colleagues by citing novels. But, Lucia adds:__ think historical fiction and nonfiction work well together. _ I'd bet that historical novels lead more readers to check out nonfiction on the subject rather than the other way around,_ she says, and then notes:One of the wonderful ironies of writing about history is that making stuff up doesn't mean it's not true. And obversely, declaring something to be true doesn't guarantee that it is. In writing about events that happened a century or more ago, no one knows what historical __ruth_ is, because no one living today was there.That's right. Weren't there. But will be, once a good historical novelist puts us there.
The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
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Lucia Robson's facts can be trusted if, say, you're a teacher assigning her novels as supplemental reading in a history class. __esearching as meticulously as a historian is not an obligation but a necessity,_ she tells me. __ut I research differently from most historians. I'm looking for details of daily life of the period that might not be important to someone tightly focused on certain events and individuals. Novelists do take conscious liberties by depicting not only what people did but trying to explain why they did it.__he adds, __ depend on the academic research of others when gathering material for my books, but I don't think that my novels should be considered on par with the work of accredited historians. I wouldn't recommend that historians cite historical novels as sources.__nd they sure don't. They wouldn't risk the scorn of their colleagues by citing novels. But, Lucia adds:__ think historical fiction and nonfiction work well together. _ I'd bet that historical novels lead more readers to check out nonfiction on the subject rather than the other way around,_ she says, and then notes:One of the wonderful ironies of writing about history is that making stuff up doesn't mean it's not true. And obversely, declaring something to be true doesn't guarantee that it is. In writing about events that happened a century or more ago, no one knows what historical __ruth_ is, because no one living today was there.That's right. Weren't there. But will be, once a good historical novelist puts us there.
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