![]() ![]() When I was writing my second book about Jane Austen as a teenage girl, Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend, I spent three days in Bath, walking in the streets, visiting the Assembly Rooms - which have been restored to what they looked like in her day - wandering around the costume museum and gazing up at the windows of a house where she visited. The second tip is probably to set your story in a place that you know about, or one that you can imagine vividly. ![]() What are they wearing? What does their hair look like? What do they eat? Were forks invented then? What about spoons? How is their food cooked? Write what you know ![]() Don't start writing until your mind is full of scenes from the past – scenes of people eating, fighting, dressing, dancing at balls, journeying across the sea, travelling through the countryside. I say a DVD because you can watch it again and again. Now these pictures can come from something you read, from a real picture, or best of all, perhaps, from a DVD. ![]() That's the first of my tips for writing historical fiction. Writing historical fiction, by Cora HarrisonĬora Harrison, author of Debutantes and I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend, shares her tips for writing historical fiction. ![]()
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