03-09-2013, 03:26 AM
Good luck on your novel, Milo
The success of a novel is not in its perfect historical accuracy. It's in sucking the reader into loving (and hating) your characters. The characters are ALL; their actions and beliefs create plot. If readers want clear-cut totally accurate historicity, then they will turn to nonfiction... where they might or might not get what they are looking for. 8-)
As a novelist myself, I have read a number of "Roman era" novels, most of which are terrible in their inability to produce a real likeable hero/heroine.
Back to Late Rome.
I'll take a Pizza Arabica, thank you.
The success of a novel is not in its perfect historical accuracy. It's in sucking the reader into loving (and hating) your characters. The characters are ALL; their actions and beliefs create plot. If readers want clear-cut totally accurate historicity, then they will turn to nonfiction... where they might or might not get what they are looking for. 8-)
As a novelist myself, I have read a number of "Roman era" novels, most of which are terrible in their inability to produce a real likeable hero/heroine.
Back to Late Rome.
I'll take a Pizza Arabica, thank you.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb