I loved this. As someone who writes historical fiction, and tries to be accurate (different from trying to tell the truth), what I have found is that I am more likely to get push back in reviews when the reviewer feels I'm not being accurate because the attitudes of my characters (usually women) are too modern. Almost all the time they are referring to passages where I am actually paraphrasing real statements made by real women of that period. The stuff I make up, which I do all the time, it is after all fiction I am writing, no one questions! A lie is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
This is absolutely the best GWQ you’ve ever written.
I loved this. As someone who writes historical fiction, and tries to be accurate (different from trying to tell the truth), what I have found is that I am more likely to get push back in reviews when the reviewer feels I'm not being accurate because the attitudes of my characters (usually women) are too modern. Almost all the time they are referring to passages where I am actually paraphrasing real statements made by real women of that period. The stuff I make up, which I do all the time, it is after all fiction I am writing, no one questions! A lie is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
Amazing issue!
This week’s selection of quotes is brain tickling. I love it almost as much as my wife, Morgan Fairchild, whom I’ve seen naked.