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Submitted by Michelle Styles on Thu, 2008-04-24 12:24.

One of the current big buzz topics in the fictional writing world is world building or world creation. It perhaps started with fantasy but really it is applicable to every type of fiction writing. And it is a particularly hot topic in historical circles and so I thought I’d share my thoughts..
One of the major aims of the writer is draw the reader into a world and keep her there for the duration of the novel. But because I write historical romance, this means that my world is always going to be anachronistic. To write in a historical time period means that you have had to research the period, rather than directly experiencing some aspect of the world. And the themes and situations that attract me as someone living in 2008 are probably different from someone living during that time period. The things I notice may be different as well.
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