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- Wed October 3rd, 2012, 8:00 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: Feature of the Month, October 2012: October 2012: Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11940
[quote=""Ludmilla""]Has anyone tried Jeff Shaara's novels about the American Revolutionary War? I've thought about trying them, but wondered whether they read like NF masquerading as fiction.[/quote] I've read both Rise to Rebellion and The Glorious Cause . The two books provide a good overview of t...
- Wed October 3rd, 2012, 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Craft of Writing
- Topic: books on writing: your favorite?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3632
For practical advise - not just what your writing should accomplish but how to accomplish it - I really recommend Larry Brooks's Story Engineering and his website, storyfix.com . His storytelling model will strike some overly formulaic, but it's akin to Robert McKee's Story , which someone else ment...
- Wed October 3rd, 2012, 5:29 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: Copper - BBC America
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1237
Copper - BBC America
Has anyone checked out the new series "Copper" on BBC America? I've really enjoyed the first few episodes. It's basically CSI meets Gangs of New York, set in 1864. The main character is New York City Police Detective Corcoran played by Tom Weston-Jones. He and his detective sidekicks solve murders a...
- Tue October 2nd, 2012, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: Feature of the Month, October 2012: October 2012: Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11940
I wanted to highlight this period, not just because its the setting of my WIP :) , but because its coverage in the genre seems dwarfed by its potential. The 17th and 18th century Atlantic seaboard exemplifies a hinge of history, in which so much of our world could have changed drastically had eve...
- Tue October 2nd, 2012, 3:36 am
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: Feature of the Month, October 2012: October 2012: Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11940
- Thu July 5th, 2012, 3:38 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: July 2012 Feature of the Month: Family Sagas
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5048
John Jakes's North and South trilogy and Kent Family Chronicles were the first historical fiction I ever read. I picked up North and South when I was maybe 12 or 13 after watching the ABC miniseries back in the '80s, and I've been hooked on the genre ever since. I had always loved history and had no...
- Mon June 11th, 2012, 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forthcoming Books: 2013 edition
- Replies: 362
- Views: 30614
Becoming Valley Forge, Seven Locks, The Turncoat ... Might we be seeing a shift in the conventional wisdom that HF set in America is a marketing non-starter? (Which I've never fully understood anyway, given the success of books by Kathleen Kent, Christine Blevins, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Sally Gunni...
- Thu May 24th, 2012, 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Craft of Writing
- Topic: How far can historical fiction be stretched?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7933
It may be the last thing you want to do at this point, Kohadenal1, but the answer may lie in more research. As boswellbaxter and Daniel have suggested, you may have options for tweaking your premise that you're not aware of. Brainstorm alternatives to the plot devices that don't seem to work in your...
- Thu April 5th, 2012, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: April 2012 Feature of the Month: Classic Fiction
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4108
Are we talking classic historical fiction, or just classic fiction? If the former, for America, I agree with the Hawthorne and Twain works mentioned. I would add: * Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and his other novels of the 18th century frontier. I know a lot of people can't stand rea...
- Tue March 27th, 2012, 10:24 pm
- Forum: Others
- Topic: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20753
Who's seen the movie yet? I was pleased with it. Overall it lacked the same intensity of tension the novel has, but it was probably about as good of an adaptation that could be done of this book. Of course, that's with the proviso that the movie has to be PG-13. The violence was certainly sanitized....