There’s No Easy Way to Write a Historical Novel
What is it that you like about historical fiction to the point to choose it over any other genre?
For me, it’s the magic of living in another time. A well written historical novel makes me forget what time I’m living in.
When a historical novel is well written, it makes me experience situations I have never be in and probably will never be in my life. As if those were events I live every day. As if centuries of history had disappeared and I’m not a XXI century woman anymore.
Making a reader achieve that kind of immersion is no easy task for a writer. Not only because we need the storytelling skills to help the reader going there, but also because we need to know that time we are writing about just as intimately and in-depth than our own time. We need to be comfortable living there ourselves.
It’s a complex, comprehensive process. One that requires patience, dedication, and a lot of time.
How then do we go about it, then?