Tag: Research
Too Much Research (Or Why You Must Leave Awesome Things Out Of Your Book)
Case Study: WHERE THE SWEET BIRD SINGS Subject: Canavan Disease Authors choose to write about a subject, location, or timeframe because there’s something about one or all of these things that makes them tick. They’re willing to spend time, often years, rolling around in the details, envisioning the scenes, researching. But if the work is […]
How Newspapers Inspire Fiction Writers
Historical documents can be treasure troves for fiction writers. We’ve all read stories based upon real historic events, or people, and no doubt some authors were inspired by historical manuscripts, either accessed in an archive, online, or in biographies. Letters, diaries, wills, government records – these are rich seams for writers to interrogate and use […]
Qaisra Shahraz: Researching a Novel in Morocco
Qaisra Shahraz, born in Pakistan, is a critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter and has lived in Manchester since she was nine. Her books have been published in numerous countries and translated into various languages. We asked her if she could tell us about her latest research for her novel based in Morocco. Apart from journalism, research […]
Researching Kipling and his Sister
I loved everything about the research for Kipling & Trix: old letters in archives, childhood photographs, biographies, memoirs, histories of the Boer War—but most of all I loved the license to roam. Not just permission but an absolute demand for travel, tracing lives passed between India and Britain. For it was my plan to follow […]
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