Interesting Times
Sep 11, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 83
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Episode description
"May you live in interesting times."
JT's awesome aunt says this is an ancient Chinese curse. The world has been living through them here in the 21st Century, but what does that mean for the writer who engages in historical fiction?
We discuss the challenges facing authors who use real-life events in their books, including sources of information, writer's biases, and the challenge of seeing into the future. Historical fiction might be the difficult form of fiction to get right.
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