7/1/2023 0 Comments Pirates! by Celia ReesWith historical fiction I might have to stop and research while I’m writing, so that slows the process down even more. ‘The techniques are different for different kinds of books. I have to do that to see if the story I want to tell is possible within the parameters of the historical period: what was going on, what people did or didn’t do. If, for example, I’m writing a historical novel, I will spend about three months at least researching and reading before I start writing anything. ‘That’s partly because all writers work differently and lots of writers lie!’ she says, laughing. What’s your writing process or routine like? There’s a huge amount of mystery about how writers actually work. Back then, there were just a few but they were very high quality.’ Any of them could have been highly successful writers for adults - and some of them were – but they chose to write for teenagers. ‘That was one reason I wanted to do it: because I admired their writing. ‘When I first started writing, there weren’t that many people who wrote for teenagers, but the ones who did were very good: American writers like Robert Cormier, Lois Duncan and Patricia Windsor, and in Britain, Alan Garner, Aidan Chambers and Penelope Lively.
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