How Long to Read How I Write Historical Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read How I Write Historical Fiction?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 1 minute to read How I Write Historical Fiction by Richard Blake

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Description

I could have called this short book How to Write Historical Fiction. It would arguably have been an accurate title. The book does tell you how to seek your inspiration, and where to do research, and how to find and develop characters, and how to write dialogue and description, and how to integrate the description of background into the main narrative. It even says something about how to find a publisher.On the other hand, the title I considered and rejected would have created a misleading view of the book. When I pay for a How to book, I expect something that takes me, chapter by chapter, though the matter of what I want to learn. How to Write Historical Fiction needs to start with a chapter of encouragement—for example, how Philippa Gregory and Steven Saylor have made a pile of cash from their historical novels, and how you can too. It needs to end with a list of the agents who handle historical fiction. Between these points, there must be practical advice on how to write coherent prose, and how to proof a typescript. How I Write Historical Fiction is a much better title.This book is a set of essays, interviews and reviews written between 2011 and 2014. Its most obvious faults are a degree of repetition, and a relentless puffing of my own works. I think these are pardonable faults. When you are answering the same questions, or making the same points, repetition is inevitable. As for the puffing, I wrote mainly to bring people's attention to my novels, and it would have defeated this object not to mention them. In further mitigation, I suggest that the book does contain a great deal of sound advice about the craft of historical fiction. I have spent years dealing with the problems faced by everyone who tries to write an historical novel. How I deal with them has brought me much acclaim. More to the point, it has encouraged Hodder & Stoughton—not an insignificant publisher, I hardly need to say—to commission six novels; and these have been translated so far into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian. Perhaps I am doing many things wrong. At the same time, I must be doing some things right. Such being the case, I offer these reflections as encouragement and advice to anyone who is thinking to enter the most honourable craft that is at once the dearest joy of my life—only excepting my womenfolk—and the main provider of my daily bread. Richard BlakeDeal, October 2014Post Scriptum As a further deterrent—or incentive—to the reader, I must say that neither this book nor my novels are for the prudish. Because I do not excel in such things, and because the Internet is filled with the writings of those who do excel, I prefer to avoid close descriptions of the sexual act. What I do not avoid is trying to see things as they are. Nor do I seek to judge these things by any of the standards that have been fashionable during my lifetime. One of the interviews republished here is with Ulisex, which is Mexico's leading LGBT magazine. This began as an interview with an Irish gay magazine. It was not published in Ireland. The editor had one look through it, and told me, with rising outrage and hysteria, that his mother had been profoundly shocked by the explanations of the Latin sexual vocabulary and by the translations from the Epigrams of Martial. If you are disgusted by the English meanings of words like fello and irrumo and paedico and futuo and cinaedus and pathicus and tribas, this is not a book I would encourage you to read. Otherwise, you can find a complete listing of my novels in the Appendix.

How long is How I Write Historical Fiction?

How I Write Historical Fiction by Richard Blake is 118 pages long, and a total of 30,444 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How I Write Historical Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 46 minutes to read How I Write Historical Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is How I Write Historical Fiction?

How I Write Historical Fiction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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