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Author - James Alexander Thom
Quotes by : James Alexander Thom
on writing
my own definition of bad historical fiction hits these points:It fails to transport the reader to a former....
historical research
Before you're ready to tell that story well, you might have to study and learn the equivalent of an entire....
on writing
Some writers don't believe they're ready to begin writing the story until they've finished all the research....
on writing
you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor,”....
on writing
Mortmain is an old French word that should be tattooed on the inside of any historical novelist's skull.....
historical fiction
Lucia Robson's facts can be trusted if, say, you're a teacher assigning her novels as supplemental reading....
historical fiction
In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling....
research
Most historical accounts were written by fallible scholars, using incomplete or biased resource materials;....
on writing
If you don't know what those old occupations were, how they were done, and how they interacted with the....
on writing
A novel, or so-called “fiction,” if deeply researched and conscientiously written, might well contain....
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