Is being descriptive an advantage in a historical fiction novel? Does the reader find it emotionally satisfying reading a lot of well described prose with beautiful vocabulary? That is the way most famous classics of yore were written.
Is being descriptive an advantage in a historical fiction novel? Does the reader find it emotionally satisfying reading a lot of well described prose with beautiful vocabulary? That is the way most famous classics of yore were written.
Sorry, that should be 'good amount of detail'
I've just finished reading Fatherland by Robert Harris, who describes post war Berlin in a goos amount of detail along with the names of the streets that, over a period of time, I found rather hard to follow. I think setting the scene is more important than a full description as to where everything is. That is my view. Good luck.
I very much enjoy setting and detail in historical fiction, but unobtrusively handled, bedded sparingly into the narrative, not set out in chunks for its own sake.
'Katherine,' by Anya Seton does this with total credibility. Hllary Mantel's Wolf Hall too, to the best of my recollection.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33609.Katherine