Dedicated Genre Advice

You are interested in articles on specific writing genres; e.g. historical fiction, crime, children's, speculative fiction etc. (Influenced by genre tags above)

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A Criminal Past – Writing Historical Crime Fiction

Karen Maitland

31st July 2015

Edited

16th September 2020

At the Harrogate Crime Festival, novelists discussed how rapid developments in forensics and crime-fighting were influencing modern crime fiction....

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Translating History

Natasha Pulley

24th June 2015

Edited

16th September 2020

History is a foreign country. Digressing a bit, so is Japan. Haruki Murakami is one of the best-selling writers worldwide – translated. Nobody...

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Shedding the Sensible

Kate Wiseman

23rd June 2015

Edited

8th October 2020

Kate Wiseman on finding time to write,

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Language and Idiom in Historical Fiction

Simon Turney

19th June 2015

Edited

16th September 2020

I’m sure that since you’re planning to write a work of historical fiction, you’ll have read plenty too. If not, then that’s clearly your starting...

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Writing Women in Historical Fiction

Joanna Courtney

15th June 2015

Edited

16th September 2020

Women are something of a rarity in history – shy, domestic creatures who peep out between the cracks of their husband’s ‘greater’ deeds. If we...

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Unknown History: Bridging the Gaps with Imagination

Simon Turney

28th May 2015

Edited

16th September 2020

Writing in a real historical setting is problematic at best, and some settings are more troublesome than others. Even the most documented historical...