Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
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