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Saturday, May 11 • 10:30am - 11:30am
Writing Historical Fiction: The Essentials
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Reading historical fiction can be a wonderfully immersive experience, giving us not only gripping stories and characters but also windows into unfamiliar worlds from the past. Writing historical fiction, however, offers a host of genre-specific pitfalls: How do we capture the language and customs of an era without alienating modern readers? How do we incorporate fact with fiction, research with invention? How do we balance the necessities of story-telling with the requirements of world-building? In this session, we will focus on the essentials of writing historical fiction, from the challenges of creating approachable dialogue to the best strategies for weaving real-life figures into a fictional story. Participants will gain a thorough grasp on how to write historical fiction that both brings to life past eras and creates brand-new stories for the future.
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Ursula DeYoung

Author, SHORECLIFF
Ursula DeYoung is a writer and editor living in Cambridge, Mass. Her first novel, SHORECLIFF, about a family spending a summer in Maine in the 1920s, was published by Little, Brown in 2013. She has also published a nonfiction book called A VISION OF MODERN SCIENCE (Palgrave Macmillan... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Cambridge
  Fiction

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