The intention is to share what knowledge and experience I have both in writing and in teaching historical fiction.
Postings will be about one a week.
I’ll try and include exercises with each ‘lesson’.
Please do contribute comments, ideas, examples etc., and I’d be very happy to answer what questions I can.
Pop into the archive to see earlier topics.
A wonderfully informative blog, Linda! Thank you for sharing with all of us about your writing – a genuine labour of Love. Just wondering if you might share a bit more about what the photo (above) is, where it was taken, and so on? It is very striking indeed…
Thanks, Karen! The photo is an inscription above the door of Francesco Datini’s house in Prato (he was the eponymous ‘Merchant of Prato’). My yet-to-be-finished novel is about Fra Filippo Lippi whose great fresco cycle in Santo Stefano, Prato, was funded by a charitable body set up by Datini.
The script is Lombardic. Prato is pretty good on late medieval stuff and gives you a real feel for what, for our Renaissance heroes, were their every day surroundings (we always live with the past).
Twenty minutes from Florence by train – I highly recommend a detour should you ever be in the great city.