If you want to be an author with a good chance of success, being one of the many Historical Fictions Writers is a good way to go. You can use your imagination to take readers into the past and into a world of characters that can make the reader escape modern times for a little bit.
This can be a fun way to make a living or supplement your income if you are imaginative and creative. The most successful authors of this genre tend to stay close to historical accuracies, such as the mannerisms of people in a certain locale in a certain time period, so you may want to keep that in mind.
There is a long tradition of this genre in literature that goes back nearly to the time when people started writing stories. Folklore and Fairy Tales could easily be categorized as historical fiction, but they were labeled as they are before the term “historical fiction” came to be.
No one really knows when the term Historical Fiction was first coined, but it might have been in the time frame when people started to consider Fairy Tales short stories geared towards children. As peoples’ literacy skills, both reading, and writing, got better, people started seeing the differences in different types of stories. When this happened, more than likely, writers started “growing up” their stories to make their stories more relatable to adults.
Some would also argue that people started to see the difference when writers started to make the difference. Either way, this was probably the time frame when the term Historical Fiction got coined and readers who were fans of the genre started to seek out books written by Historical Fiction Writers, thus making them popular.
Learning the history of a genre such as this can make a person a better writer of the genre. They say that if you want to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. This is very much the case in this genre because so many readers like to nit-pick the historical details in a book such as this. Other people say this ruins the experience of a book but to each their own. The bottom line for a writer is to do as much research into an era as you can and read as much as you can. Both of these activities will increase your chances of success.
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