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  • Hi everyone.  I'm new here, but Sara and I have been internet writing pals for several...the early phases of a new chapter of my life, and so am not in heavy literary mode these days, but I look forwar...
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    Which article talks about real vs fictional settings? I am wondering about putting characters in a quazi real setting, like LA but not LA, much like how Lillian Jackso...
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    Military veteran and first-time novelist Matthew Robinson did not want to presume too...d finalist, includes interventions and interruptions by a skeptical, fictional model for a fictional character:...
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    Research is Fun and Educational When Writing Historical Fiction: Writing Historical Fiction is such fun. If you do good research, it helps you to understand how the pe...

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  • I’ve just read all the comments here with my hands shaking and my stomach churning the...held about my mother and my own origins since childhood. Hmm, yup, whiny brat mode achieved… but seriously, I th...
  • Loved this post in its succinctness, sweep of books I've read, and vision of the problems and benefits in writing historical fiction. There are diaries of a few women...
  • Thank you for this forum and it has come at the right time for me. I'm at the end stages of my first fictional novel. I'm a novice and would like to continue to write...