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Using History to Inspire Fiction with Mirandi Riwoe
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher: Mirandi Riwoe (0:59)
What is Historical Fiction and Why Write It?
Introduction to Part One
What Is Historical Fiction?
Historical Fiction Sub-genres
Why Write Historical Fiction?
Your Teacher: Why Historical Fiction Instead of Non-fiction?
Exercise: Generating Ideas
Your Teacher: Why I Write Historical Fiction
Your Teacher: My First Work of Historical Fiction
Exercise: Come Up With a Pitch
Finding Inspiration
Exercise: What Inspires You?
The Research Period
Introduction to Part Two
Exercise: Facing Your Fears
The Research Process: Getting Started
Exercise: Reinventing Historical Detail
Where to Search: Fiction and Non-Fiction
Where to Search: Primary Sources
Where to Search: Libraries and Museums
Where to Search: Audio, Travel, Film & TV
Other Writers on Research
Exercise: Start Researching
How to Record Your Research
Don’t Use ALL Your Research
Exercise: Kill Your Darlings
Weaving In What You Find Out
Exercise: List Those Little Things You Find
Exercise: Delve Deep Using an Article of Clothing
Authenticity vs. Accuracy
Interpreting What You Find/Read
How Research Can Lead You to New Ideas and Projects
Authenticity vs. Accuracy Continued
Writing Fiction Not History
What We Know vs. What We Depict
Exercise: Finding the Gap
Wider Issues Within Your Story
Exercise: Considering Your Work’s Themes
Prescience
Writing Back to the Past
Bringing It All Together
Introduction to Part Three
Where to Begin?
Exercise: Possible Beginnings
Plotter or Pantser
The Structure of Your Novel
Exercise: Thinking About Character
The Individual
Exercise: Getting to Know Your Character
Other Protagonists or Periphery Characters
Exercise: What Can You Reveal About Your Character?
Emotions: How Does Your Character Feel?
Conflict
Exercise: What’s at Stake? Where's the Conflict?
Exercise: What Can Your Character Represent?
Tense and Narrative Perspective
Exercise: Redrafting
Setting
Exercise: Create Setting
Style
Voice
Exercise: Borrowing Style or Voice
Who Tells the Story?
How to Get Past the Fear of Not Getting Something Right?
Exercise: Next Year
Thank You! (0:09)
Further Reading List
Feedback
Thank you
Writing Fiction Not History
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