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#HistFicThursdays - Transforming a Room into Yesteryear

There are so many things we have today which were almost beyond imagination in the past. This has been particularly brought home to me this week as I'm making a few trips to our county town (more than 100 miles away), and because we lost the internet which brings home just home much we use it! Technology certainly has its benefits! In fact, looking around the room (and this is a comparatively old-fashioned room) as I'm writing this, there are so many things we take for granted which would simply not have existed even a couple of hundred years ago. You can, of course, discount anything which uses electricity and, more interestingly, all of the paperback books - of which there are hundreds - and none of the MDF bookcases either. There would have been no photographs, although there may well have been paintings and sketches of the people in them. But it's not just about taking away what is here now. It's also about what we have lost since then. Rooms needed lighting, and th...
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#HistFicThursdays - Gearing up to this Year's Big Event - #HistFicMay

 After the fabulous fun and friendship of last year's #HistFicMay, I have decided to run the risk of doing it again! I'm sure that this year will be even better than last year! So here's your heads-up of what you can expect from this year's online historical fiction event!

I will be looking out for posts on BluSky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, and I can't wait to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new friends too! Just like last year, every day will have a prompt. You can schedule posts or post them on the day. You can use pictures or use the #HistFicMay prompt image instead. Really, you can post anything which links to the prompt!

And speaking of prompts, here they are:

  1. Introduce yourself
  2. Introduce your writing
  3. Which writer(s) most inspire(s) you?
  4. Favourite quote from your writing
  5. Introduce your MC
  6. You take your MC to dinner - what do you talk about?
  7. Self-destructing hero of redeemable villain?
  8. Who (if anyone) is your MC based on?
  9. Would you give your MC a prequel/sequel? Why?
  10. What's your favourite #HistFic book?
  11. The last sentence you wrote
  12. What's your setting and why did you choose it?
  13. If you could time travel, when/where would you go?
  14. Which (if any) real events feature in your book?
  15. What aspect of your setting do you most struggle with?
  16. Do you prefer books set in the time you write about or others?
  17. Share your favourite research book
  18. Best description you've written
  19. What does you writing space look like?
  20. What's the top piece on your story's playlist?
  21. Who will your book be dedicated to? Why?
  22. What's the best feedback/review you've ever had?
  23. How do you advertise your book?
  24. What's the next #HistFic book on your TBR pile?
  25. Favourite quote from history
  26. Tell your story in Emojis
  27. With an unlimited budget, what's your book launch look like?
  28. What's the honest tagline for your book?
  29. Which scene (if any) have you written multiple times?
  30. In a perfect world, who narrates your audiobook?
  31. Spill the beans! What's the last word/line of your book?

Every Monday is a #MondayMusings prompt, and every Tuesday is a #TuesdayTruths prompt, all the others are mixed in with each other!

So, choose a colour scheme which works best for you, and let's have some #HistFic fun!





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