tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post8733359554759999016..comments2024-03-17T12:30:03.009-05:00Comments on Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Doctor Who and Historical FictionCarmela Martinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15543808551988338496noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-47608374332393585172015-01-14T08:51:35.327-06:002015-01-14T08:51:35.327-06:00Damon, thank you so much for your thoughtful discu...Damon, thank you so much for your thoughtful discussion. That is a powerful memory. And I agree, it would make a powerful story. I think you should absolutely write that story!Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-21101303311509238822015-01-13T21:09:55.373-06:002015-01-13T21:09:55.373-06:00Bobbie,
you have given such a thorough considerati...Bobbie,<br />you have given such a thorough consideration of the 'wibbly-wobbly' discussion on historical fiction, and I think an accurate one.<br />I will forget my name in my old age before I forget how distraught my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Dolan, was when she entered our classroom crying, and explaining that our president, John F. Kennedy, had been shot. We absorbed her grief as a first taste, as fourth graders, of the nation's tears we would see unfold on our black and white televisions at home over the next month. This was the man we had been reading about in our Weekly Readers...so it was so very real even to children.<br />For an 'historical fiction' writer to catch that emotion might be rare--unless, they had, in fact experienced it. Yes, just over 50 years ago, qualified as history in my personal experience, as I am now 61. You've prompted me to think I should write about it somehow, for children, from a first-hand fourth grade view.Damon Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07782134281754572820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-83742202526785225022015-01-13T11:23:07.960-06:002015-01-13T11:23:07.960-06:00Jan: Thank you so much for checking in, and for re...Jan: Thank you so much for checking in, and for reading GIRLS. I hope you like it. Let us know what you think of it! Meanwhile, wishing you all good success on writing your MG novel. I tend to think that writing historical fiction, and its sister genre American fantasy, is an artform at its best. It weaves together so many components -- all the wibbly wobbly wimey threads of time and space as well as fiction -- that tends to go unnoticed. It's a challenge!Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-38951858381447526162015-01-13T08:14:27.843-06:002015-01-13T08:14:27.843-06:00Congrats on Girls of Gettysburg which is on my To ...<br />Congrats on Girls of Gettysburg which is on my To Read list & accumulates the best recommendations, Bobbi.<br />This post is timely for me.<br />Part of my nights & days this week (in addition to revision of picture books in the Meg Miller - relation? -& ReviMo challenge) include reading the historical fiction novel The Good Lord Bird about John Brown & also writing my MG novel set in coastal FL in the 1970s. <br />So all of this is spot-on for this researcher/writer. <br />Great, great post. Appreciations!jan godown anninohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00091996699597066230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-40739246880221453972015-01-13T07:24:01.821-06:002015-01-13T07:24:01.821-06:00Leanne, a fellow Whovian!! Yea!! Thank you for sto...Leanne, a fellow Whovian!! Yea!! Thank you for stopping by, and for your kind words!Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-44179995173257972002015-01-13T07:21:47.157-06:002015-01-13T07:21:47.157-06:00Yvonne and Marcia: Thank you, thank you for your k...Yvonne and Marcia: Thank you, thank you for your kind words! Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-37662730777248117452015-01-13T07:19:59.664-06:002015-01-13T07:19:59.664-06:00Wendie: I so agree! As I was researching Girls of ...Wendie: I so agree! As I was researching Girls of Gettysburg, I read many children's books on the subject just to get my feel of what was already done. I found one book, Who Shall Not Be Named, that was held in high regard, taught in classes, but it had some glaring mistakes, including the dates of the battle itself! I was astounded that no one during the process of editing or proofing caught those dates, at the very least. Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-63565575367752494692015-01-13T06:08:26.173-06:002015-01-13T06:08:26.173-06:00I am a Doctor Who fanatic and I love historical fi...I am a Doctor Who fanatic and I love historical fiction, Bobbi. Your "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" connection was spot on. A great post. Leanne Pankuch https://www.blogger.com/profile/05301269252155710680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-74783880423373922682015-01-12T18:25:54.895-06:002015-01-12T18:25:54.895-06:00I've learned a lot from this very interesting ...I've learned a lot from this very interesting post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-2414301559158545022015-01-12T14:13:45.611-06:002015-01-12T14:13:45.611-06:00I love how you wove the three story lines together...I love how you wove the three story lines together in The Girls of Gettysburg.Yvonne Ventrescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06935915085584796351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-43213391840938736332015-01-12T14:12:25.468-06:002015-01-12T14:12:25.468-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Yvonne Ventrescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06935915085584796351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-63833279717347922012015-01-12T12:34:37.869-06:002015-01-12T12:34:37.869-06:00It's always a shock to read something written ...It's always a shock to read something written as historical fiction when it's set within your own time period - and you catch errors. As you said "But I SAW this (or that) happen." You can't write about the shooting of John Kennedy and change the facts, because too many people are still living who saw it unfold.<br />Secondly, if they get a fact wrong. One award-winning book had the child TURN ON the oil lamp. Sorry, you don't turn it on. You LIGHT it with a match or a flaming splinter lit from the fireplace.WendieOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-85496818364596550202015-01-12T12:32:06.567-06:002015-01-12T12:32:06.567-06:00Thank you for your kind words, Esther. Always!!Thank you for your kind words, Esther. Always!!Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-80896722849423611582015-01-12T12:31:31.403-06:002015-01-12T12:31:31.403-06:00Thank you, Marti! I LOVE the Historical Novel Soci...Thank you, Marti! I LOVE the Historical Novel Society. They gave nice recommendations to both of my books. In fact, they wrote of Girls of Gettysburg, "... a wonderful junior companion to the likes of Shaara’s or Peters’ books about the same battle." Can you imagine!!?Bobbi Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06175232103842324895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-73887821151138688642015-01-12T12:05:19.996-06:002015-01-12T12:05:19.996-06:00Great post, Bobbi. You may be interested in knowin...Great post, Bobbi. You may be interested in knowing how the Historical Novel Society defines historical:<br />>>To be deemed historical (in our sense), a novel must have been written at least fifty years after the events described, or have been written by someone who was not alive at the time of those events (who therefore approaches them only by research).<<<br />(see http://historicalnovelsociety.org/guides/defining-the-genre/ )<br />But that definition really doesn't fit when we're writing for young readers. I think they consider something "historical" if it occurred before they were born. :-)Carmela Martinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543808551988338496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934041490878801751.post-75408799976203133002015-01-12T12:00:09.348-06:002015-01-12T12:00:09.348-06:00Thanks for this most insightful and thoughtful pos...Thanks for this most insightful and thoughtful post, Bobbi!<br />Esther Hershenhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016897434029543881noreply@blogger.com