Welcome - Please read this first!

Hi all,

Welcome to the Historical Fiction forum for 2011. I'm Lottie, one of the mods who'll be looking after this forum this year. A couple of things to note:

1. Please keep your posts on topic. We will move threads if they are deemed to be inappropriate, not just because they clutter up the forum for those who are looking for specifically HF related subjects, but also because you're more likely to get a relevant reply if your post is in the correct place. If you come back to the forum and discover that your thread has disappeared, please check your nanomail inbox as we will always PM you to tell you where your post has been moved to and why.

2. This forum has two mods but we can't guarantee to be here all the time, we're MLs and have regions to look after, as well as having jobs and lives etc.. If you see a thread which is obviously inappropriate for the forum, particularly if it is spam of any kind, please hit the 'report' button and let us know about it. If enough people do this, it will actually disappear from the forum automatically without us having to do anything further, so it's always a helpful thing to do and only takes a couple of seconds.

3. Please give your post a relevant subject heading. Something like 'Male Clothing in 1920s New York City' is much better than 'Help!' and is more likely to be answered.

4. This forum can get very, very busy and threads can disappear off the front page within a few hours during peak times. Please check to make sure that your topic doesn't already have a thread before posting another one, as you're more likely to get an answer if people don't have to write the same reply for the fourth time - everyone's going to be busy writing other things after all. :-)

5. Please take the time to do a quick Google/Goodsearch search for the answer to your question before posting here; although the people on here are extremely friendly and helpful, it is unreasonable for you to expect others to do such simple research on your behalf and they will start to get a bit irate if it's obvious that you haven't bothered to do even the most basic of research to help yourself.

Thanks for reading, and hope you have a great time with us this year. :-)

Lottie

Moderator - Historical Fiction Forum

Edited - 15th October 2011 by Loriba

Hello. I am doing NaNo for the second time. My first one was published this year and my publisher wants another in the series with the same characters. I may have to pop in to see if anyone has info on the western frontier of 1840, Indian Territory, Van Buren, Arkansas or Fort Smith. Happy writing everyone. Kitty

PUBLISHED . . . way to go!

Jag är ny här och skulle behöva litet hjälp. Jag vill ha en historia om en dam i mitten av 1700-talet. Hur ska jag forma dialogen? Borde den vara i gammaldags stil? Inte alltför gammaldags, för då blir det svårt att läsa, antar jag.

Hi all..
I am trying to write about a disorderly house (house of ill repute, 'ho house etc. etc) circa 1905.
the madam is a jersey girl, the place is the tenderloin, ny.... thoughts?
thx.tlg

Almost half way through the word count... Historical fiction, based on tales from my greatgrand and grandmothers... The story is heavy with discription, but has no plot.
I have the wagon trip, the settling of the small prairie town and events that made it. It just seems to circle around the characters with no reason to continue.
One minor character, Eli, seems to be fighting me every step for a different role as he is pushing my original main characters into the background.
Any suggestions welcome!

HI. This year is my first time writing a nano challenge - the genre is a historical fiction set in Europe around 19th century. I'm already reaching the peak of my novel, however, I'm not really knowledgeable of the19th century period - all I did is research and based some from the novels I've read and series I've watched. It's not my first attempt to write a book since I've attempted to write one before (but didn't finish it) nonetheless, I want to complete this historical novel and the nano challenge is a big help for me.