All Blog Posts Tagged 'truth' (7)

Adult Truth #8

#8Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.”

At first I thought this was a little insensitive to the dead person's surviving family. Do the grandsons really need to read about grandma getting run over by a reindeer? Then I thought: lighten up, these truths are supposed be light-hearted fun.

With the last truth I discussed how much detail to put into a…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on February 16, 2013 at 2:24am — 5 Comments

Adult Truth #3

“I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.”

Actually, these days, I wish I could nap and still have plenty of daylight left when I finally awaken. Or, if I’m really enjoying the night, that it could last longer. Day’s light and night’s dark don’t last long enough to suit my…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on November 16, 2012 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Come on! Have a listen to my story, Truth Hurts in podcast! It's very anti Twilight!



If you'd care for a horror break, you might like to listen to my critically acclaimed story,

Truth Hurts which can be heard in podcast.

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Added by carole gill on October 18, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

An author's Advice to a Reader

I've been following a discussion on Goodreads that concerns historical novels and the "truth" they present. I also spent many, many years teaching history, using novels as a way to make the past more interesting to students than the history books seem able to do. What I see is that there are two purposes to reading historicals, and the wise reader understands what her goal is and then how much she cares about truth as opposed to an exciting story.



First and maybe foremost, we read… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on January 29, 2010 at 10:53pm — 1 Comment

The Truth About Lies

The Winged with Death Tour visits Jim Murdoch's blog today, The Truth About Lies.
Review and discussion.

Added by John Baker on May 4, 2009 at 8:32pm — No Comments

A Question of Character

Yesterday I suggested that authors of historical fiction need to clarify somewhere in their work how much liberty they took with the fact of whatever matter they take on. There is, however, a fascinating area of history left in a sort of no-man's land: the questions with no answers.



Did Richard III have anything to do with his nephews' disappearance from the Tower of London? Was Richard the Lionheart a homosexual? Did Lizzie Borden really "take an ax..."



Such questions are… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on February 25, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

What's Historical and What's Novel?

I've been speaking a lot on historical novels this week, and the question always comes up: how does the reader tell what's true and what isn't? It seems that the avid reader gobbles up book after book, and in the end may not consider much whether the author has a bias, wants to influence his audience's thinking, or just skews things to make a good story.



I think authors should clarify somewhere, in the foreword or the afterword e.g., what is true and what isn't in a book. History… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on February 24, 2009 at 9:17pm — 6 Comments

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