Another enjoyable meeting of the #HistoricalNovelSociety Devon Chapter last Thursday, even though I had to leave early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The question of why one writes was raised. I said that I wrote what I wanted to read, but, thinking about it later, I realised that that was a rather simplistic answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of our number was told that the period of her story was not one that was popular. For me that would not be something that I was interested in hearing. I enjoy reading, fiction or non-fiction, about the English Republic. We are often enjoined to write what we know. I think that would be better put as, ‘Write what you are interested in.’ I don’t even aspire to ‘know’ the Republic, but I do my research diligently and I could not do that if I were not really curious about the period. I could not wade through the reading neither could I write with enthusiasm – which I hope comes across in my work – without that relish for the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of the reason that I write is that I think other people would enjoy knowing more of ‘my’ period and might come to share my passion for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the day it’s your<\/em><\/strong> passion for your<\/em><\/strong> period that will make your story worth reading – it’s the story that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another enjoyable meeting of the #HistoricalNovelSociety Devon Chapter last Thursday, even though I had to leave early. The question of why one writes was raised. I said that I wrote what I wanted to read, but, thinking about it later, I realised that that was a rather simplistic answer. One of our number was told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}