75 Quotes by Sara Sheridan about Writing
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Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
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Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
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Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
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If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.
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I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.
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Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
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You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!.
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Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
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