Hitting the Books

Found on this month’s Carnival of Bad History (see previous post)

If World War II were an on-line game/instant message…

Warning–the language is quite crude, but that may be the norm for wargaming. However, the concept is so funny and well-done that it’s worth the read.

Okay, so I’m familiar with carnivals–my husband submits to the Carnival of Personal Finance, the Carnival of Investing, and the Festival of Frugality. He actually started up his own, the Carnival of Debt Reduction (these can be found on his site) . I actually sent in a post to some writers’ carnival (I was the only submission that week), but never did again.

Which leads me to my point. While on the topic of all those rules for writing (bad) historical fiction, I found, by way of Sarah (see sidebar) Rules for Writing Neo-Victorian Novels . The author, The Little Professor, had a link to the Carnival of Bad History, hosted this month by Ahistoricality. (Here’s the original Bad History website).

Y’all would probably be most interested in item #1 on their list, which is:

Bad presentations of history - This is the easy one. Review bad historical movies, books and teevee. How anachronistic are those uniforms? How improbable is that alternate history novel? Did kindly frontier doctors really talk like that?

Toddle on over, take a peek. Submit maybe. Or at least have a good laugh (or lament “Good Grief.”).