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Once Upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction

James Alexander Thom

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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not.

In Once Upon a Time It Was Now, best-selling author James Alexander Thom (Follow the River, From Sea to Shining Sea, Sign-Talker) gives you the tools you need to research and create stories born from the past that will move and inspire modern readers. His comprehensive approach includes lessons on how to:

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ISBN10:: 1681570513

ISBN13:: 9781681570518

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Once Upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction

James Alexander Thom

3.88/5 (48 ratings)

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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not.

In Once Upon a Time It Was Now, best-selling author James Alexander Thom (Follow the River, From Sea to Shining Sea, Sign-Talker) gives you the tools you need to research and create stories born from the past that will move and inspire modern readers. His comprehensive approach includes lessons on how to:

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 2

Language:

ISBN10:: 1681570513

ISBN13:: 9781681570518

kindle Asin:: B072TQW216

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