How to write historical fiction

20 Historical Writing Prompts To Spark Your Imagination

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The process of writing historical fiction can throw up some tough obstacles. Learn about the top five challenges and how you can overcome them.

Although every genre has its own challenges, many writers shy away from setting their stories in the past because of the extensive research involved. Dozens of details need to be factual…

Learning how to write historical fiction requires the skills to a well-drawn story, with the added responsibility of evoking times gone by.

Does writing historical fiction scare you? What if you don’t get all the facts right? How much should you research? How do you make the characters relatable to modern day readers? Today, we’d like to answer many of the common questions writers new to the genre have, as well as how to craft historical fiction that is authentic and true.

Medical history for writers is a series I’ve been planning to write for FOUR YEARS and never got around to until now. I was supposed to start by writing about plague but I figured I might as well start from something instead of waiting to do more research on that, so here we are, talking […]

When I first started writing, the last thing I wanted to write was historical fiction. I thought it would be tooooo much research. The truth is . . . it is! But I also discovered I LOVE research, and writing historical fiction has become a love of mine. A few things I've done while

Seven tips on how to write historical fiction by Elizabeth Pye, author of The French Connection series novels, Silk or Sugar and Return to Chateau Fleury.

How To Get Started Writing Historical Fiction | Go Teen Writers