I'm working on my story's timeline and I'm trying to decide how many years it would believably take for a historical event to become muddled in...
Hello community! I'm hoping for some advice and guidance on the kind of genre my book falls into. I hope you guys can help. For the last 4 and...
Hello everyone! Apologies if this post could be considered too political/religious/controversial. I am working on a tabletop / novel setting and...
This thread is for inspiring things with history visiting us today. Articles, videos, books, interviews, personal experiences, data... anything....
Hello everyone, first post here! May it be the first of many. I am writing a science fiction fantasy short story. The main characters are all...
As research for my novel-in-progress, I'm reading an excellent article on the history of publishing. In it, I found the following paragraph,...
Hi! My name is Ryan, and I'm 16 and an aspiring writer! I have two stories that I want to flesh out at the moment, but I've put one on the...
The truth is stranger than fiction. I recently read a piece of advice that basically went like this: History is full of drama queens. Julius...
I know because of Salem, church and state had to be separated and, the Puritans went to/came to a colony called Massachusetts Bay Colony and they...
Does the idea of a historical fiction book written like a history book along with fake top secret documents/declassified files sound appealing?...
I'm making a war sci-fi war story, but I don't decide who should be the main team yet. I want them to be no-ones, people who doesn't look like...
For the longest time, I've been trying to figure out the history of my world, but I've never gotten really in depth into it. I was wondering how...
I'm new here, and found this place in an attempt to get some advice on a dilemma I'm having in regards to the backstory for two of my major...
The series I'm working on takes place in the mid 30s, and book one has the main character (who's fourteen by the way) at a boarding school. I've...
Hello everyone. I've just joined the site and it seems polite to introduce myself. The username Pepys seemed apt because I've written a daily...
Let's say, for no particular reason, I am a wealthy lord living somewhere in Europe (Scotland or England, if possible) between the years 800-1000,...
I've been sitting on this idea for awhile, building the setting and such. But when I started writing the actual story I found that I wasn't sure...
What's the worst thing in your search history? My search history just keeps getting worse and worse. I just had to google "How to safely cut out...
So I will try to make this as coherent as possible. Basically I am in the portion of my story where the origin of a fictional town I created is...
Hello writers of the world. I have just started to put some more time in my writing and hoping that I can learn a lot from you guys. I always...
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