They Have a Carnival for Everything, Don’t They?
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.”).
March 30th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Holding up my hand and admitting to be another Carnival freak (definitely the Sideshow variety).
In fact, I read the three that your hubby does (finance and good romances are my weaknesses, yes, definitely strange bedfellows).
Is there a support group?
March 30th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Well, maybe not too strange. I mean, how often do you find the penniless hero? No, they’re often rich, financially secure men in positions of power. Even the pirates are well-off. How else can they keep the heroine in these palaces of pleasure
As for support groups…yeah. Internet addiction support groups would be a good idea. Maybe an on-line chat room…oh. That would kinda defeat the purpose, huh?