Tournaments & Rebellion in Historical Fiction
Gone Medieval
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The Importance of Maintaining Historical Accuracy
I don't see that the historical record is a sort of barrier to creativity. Rather, it's the framework that I use to construct the story. The details of history as being the seedbed for creative imagination and invention. It's where the stories grow. And whenever I've written about the past, I've tried to make it not as accurate as possible because I don't think you can make it happen. We have no way of measuring how accurate versions of the past are. All we can do is create a picture of the past that accords as closely as possible to what we currently believe the past to have been. So, in terms of accuracy, I wouldn't say I would
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