As
a writer, it’s very exciting to be living in the Information Age. New, exciting, scary, exhilarating events
seem to happen on a daily basis projecting us forward. But what’s even better is that our
understanding of the past becomes a little clearer. As a genre writer in both heroic fantasy and historic
fiction, I find this very appealing. Our
vision of specific eras has been growing more and more real as scientists make
new discoveries and that information passes from the esoteric to the
mainstream. Rome wasn’t built, nor did
it fall, in a day. The light of
civilization and learning was never snuffed, and the Dark Ages is a complete
misnomer.
All
this information might seem overwhelming, but I find it refreshing. I love to get my writerly-hooks into some
juicy historical data and mull it over. Even better, I like to fill in the blanks on what historians and scientists don't yet know. If
I’m doing it right (and not just following a whim of curiosity) I get a lovely
set of events or characters out of the effort.
It adds a very real dimension to my stories that resonates, and I (and hopefully my
readers) enjoy.
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