{"id":5983,"date":"2015-05-24T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:00:48","slug":"a-sudden-diversion-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/history\/a-sudden-diversion-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A sudden diversion in time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My sudden historical bent has nothing to do the with lovely Ross Poldark… but he hasn’t hurt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It had to happen one day.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this blog know I am a bit of a history buff and spend as much time as I can climbing over ruined castles, old abbeys, stone age forts and the like wherever I find them.<\/p>\n

I have always said I am not a big fan of historical fiction\u2026 but slowly more and more historical reads have somehow found their way on to my bookshelf and into my e-readers.<\/p>\n

So, I guess it\u2019s time to fess up\u2026. This morning I found myself doing some serious historical writing research. It was before breakfast too!<\/p>\n

No \u2013 don\u2019t panic. I\u2019m not going to suddenly become a writer of historical novels.<\/p>\n

I am, however trying my hand a something a little different. And while the story is contemporary, it does need a good strong historical background.<\/p>\n

So while still in my jim-jams, I was checking the most common Cornish names in the early 1800s, and the exact date of the destruction of a certain Devon wharf. And I did discover that reading about ship wrecks can be fascinating.<\/p>\n

I have always done research for my books. For the first Coorah Creek novel, I spent ages learning about piloting a small plane.<\/p>\n

For Bring Me Sunshine, I spent time talking to people who had done what I, unfortunately, couldn\u2019t \u2013 which was take a cruise to Antarctica.<\/p>\n

For my historical backstory, I turned first to the web. It found out pretty much what I needed to know very quickly. But just because I have what I need, that doesn\u2019t mean I shall give up the research. Every page I went to seemed to point me further on to something else that looked interesting. Before I realised it, I was a long way from my starting point in a direction I had never intended to go.<\/p>\n

I can feel all my historical writer friends grinning from ear to ear as I say I\u2019m really enjoying the research. It is all their fault of course.<\/p>\n

However \u2013 that\u2019s not to say I will ever write an historical novel. I still find that prospect totally daunting. And there are still more stories to tell about the people of Coorah Creek\u2026<\/p>\n

AND on that subject. Do drop by in a week, as I will have some news to share with you about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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