Capturing Time and Place in a Sentence

I’m guest-posting on the incredible blog of @MatthewHarffy, author of the sword-swinging Bernicia Chronicles. I’m looking at insights into how to make a historical setting real & engaging.

One of the challenges in writing historical fiction, is the effort to capture a setting.  How do you write believably about an era that is long vanished in time? How do you make that setting come alive, in a realistic and accurate way? How does that setting drive the story, characters actions and choices, and how do they interact with that world?

THIEVES’ CASTLE, my new book, is set in the Elizabethan era in 1576 in London. Most fiction embedded in the Elizabethan era tends to be tales of Court intrigue, set amidst the silken splendor of palaces.  Mine tends to hang about in ale-soaked taverns, muddy streets and fetid back-alleys where cold-steel by lantern light offers redemption or grim death by turns…

Read the rest at:

http://bernicia-chronicles.blogspot.com/2019/09/guest-post-capturing-time-and-place-in.html

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