I love historical fiction when it is well written and historically accurate. To my mind it must be historically accurate, otherwise shouldn’t you have to call it “fictional history”?

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Writing historical fiction, I am finding is a slow process. Especially in these early stages. Everything has to be accurate. Even though I had done a lot of research before I started, I am realizing that I don’t know it cold. (Somehow I am getting the feeling that my characters know the history better than I do.) As a result, I am having to fact check and validate.

The thought had occurred to me to skip the fact checking until the edit process. But I quickly threw that out the window when I realized that one fact meant that I had to adjust the age of my main character. That would have resulted in chaos in the edit phase.

So it doesn’t look like I will be posting any huge word counts… yet.

Word Count for November 3, is:

1,800 words. Three-day total 4,800.

Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer