Good Intentions…
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
So, last night, when I was supposed to be catching up on my blog reading and writing, what did I do instead? I found new blogs to subscribe to. Sigh.
I started with the best of intents–Carla Nayland had kindly left a comment on my blog a few days ago, so I dropped by her site to return the favor. And promptly got sucked into a very interesting discussion on what does and doesn’t appeal to readers of historical fiction. (part 1 and part 2)
Cool, I thought. I wonder if there’s a big difference between what readers of historical fiction and readers of historical romances like? I should blog on it, I decided.
But in catching up on my reading I discovered Robyn over at Snarkling Clean had already beat me to the topic.
From Carla’s I clicked over to Susan Higginbotham’s site (I ain’t writing its real name out ‘cuz it’s long and I’m tired) and found, along with some fascinating posts, 10 More Rules for Writing Historical Fiction. What a hoot! But where were the first ten rules?
That sent me on to Sarah’s Bookarama, another great site. She’s gathered a whole slew of “rules” for writing historical fiction from various authors. There’s the original rules (Alan Fisk), Prehistoric (Sarah Johnson), Arthurian (Vivien Tyler), Medieval, Elizabeth Chadwick, and Feminist (India Edgehill). (All of these are originally from Solander, the magazine of the Historical Novel Society. I hope I got all the acknowledgements correct. If I didn’t, please forgive.)
UPDATE: Whoops! Left off Alianore’s rules for Edward II and Isabella! My bad.
I’m waiting for the Regency, Georgian, American Civil War, etc. If someone doesn’t write them soon, I’ll have to, and I really don’t have the time for one more project.
Needless to say, after getting swept away with my clicking, I didn’t get very caught up. Plus I was a bad mama and didn’t get to my writing because of the surfing. So it was after 2 am when I finally started typing, and after 3 when I crawled into bed. Of course, the Punkin decided that 5:30 am was the proper time to get up. Arghhh.
Anyhoo, now I’m really going to post this, catch up on Romancing the Blog and Writing and Rambling, then get to my laptop. I promise…