3 Goals for Writing Great Historical Fiction
In a lot of ways, writing historical fiction is a double-edged sword. You have the framework and structure of real
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Tor Books, in partnership with Literary Hub, presents Voyage Into Genre! Every other Wednesday, join host Drew Broussard for conversations with Tor authors discussing their new books, the future, and the future of genre. Oh, and maybe there’ll be some surprises along the way… I have said this before, and you will hear me say it again during this episode: I wish that I could have had the books that are coming out of the YA sphere now when I was an adolescent and a teenager. When I was growing up, it felt like there were all of the obvious entry points into reading: Goosebumps, The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter , but pretty quickly, I, and many of my friends, and I imagine many of you ended up moving on to adult books, maybe even before we were quote unquote supposed to. It has been such a joy as a grownup reader to see the YA space expand in the way that it has. Too many readers in my life certainly still think of YA a little bit pejoratively. The number of times that I have seen people try to dismiss Sally Rooney’s Normal People as basically ‘YA.’ It infuriates me because there’s this, again, dismissal of an entire genre, certainly, but also of an entire readership. What is so bad about a story that centers a young person? I think maybe a lot of quote-unquote grownups would do better to remember what it was like to be a young person, to have a roil of feelings and hormones and experiences that you didn’t know what to do with, you didn’t know how to process it. You’re just sort of like blindly flying through the world. It’s important to remember that we all experienced that and it’s even more important for kids who are currently experiencing that to see themselves represented in stories. So as we were putting this year together—and for those of you who haven’t clocked it yet, we have themed each episode of the season this year to be one of the […]
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In a lot of ways, writing historical fiction is a double-edged sword. You have the framework and structure of real
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