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“Not exactly a deep cut as historical fiction goes, but for my purposes a near-ideal example.”
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“The thing about literary giants, though, is that they tend to know what they’re doing.”
“3: Don’t Use Your Research to Accessorize You’re writing a historical novel, which means you’ve been putting in some serious hours at the library.”
“1: Go Easy on the Period Diction Language is what books are made of, and all prose and dialogue must be outfitted in some sort of style.”
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“Well, in the rules I’m about to set out, I warn of the ways in which we can get historical fiction wrong.”
“But look again at the Mantel excerpt.”
“Now as then, the words for such things are simple.”
“Also, one last thing: In case anyone missed my tiresome play on words, the “dating” in the title refers to the various techniques you can use to situate your novel in time and place.”
“Yes, Susanna Clarke did it, but (a) she did a lot more besides, and (b) you are not Susanna Clarke.”
“Her chosen milieu is Tudor England, and she has a scholar’s intimacy with the flavors of Early Modern English then in use.”
“She begins as she means to go on.”
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“The excerpt is taken, of course, from the first page of Wolf Hall , for which Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize in 2009.”
“As with most technical problems, find a solution that’s natural and unobtrusive.”
“Plus, you might argue, they get broken all the time, and by unassailable giants of the genre.”
“Given that you’re six points deep into this particular list, however, I’m going to assume that Bridgerton is not the vibe you’re going for.”