/lit/ - Literature

>>16702020
Hot

Anything and everything on the period and places. How much is enough is up to you of course.

>>16702020
>If I want to craft historical fiction
>craft

I assume it is because you find it "cool", and that is mostly because you are unfamiliar with it, and that sense of strangeness is what you covet. It seems like a bottomless well to draw from and you have no idea what you will find.
This ignorant attitude will easily lead you astray.
Write what you know well yourself instead, and it will give that same feeling of strangeness to others.

However, the setting, and all other worldbuilding has no merit in itself. Most aspiring fantasy genre writers don't realize this, and just artistically worldbuild for the sake of worldbuilding. Why? Because Tolkien did it. However, Tolkien, Lovecraft, and whatever big name you have in genreshit - they all did it for a reason. It was there to express something, and not to be "fleshed out", "immersive" and the same thing goes for whatever other video-gamey buzzword you can think of. You have to think a little more conceptually and beyond the surface level trivia.

>>16702112
>artistically worldbuild
I mean autistically

>>16702112
Just because I know you won't be able to satisfactorily answer this question without describing Tolkien as world-building for world-building's sake, what about Tolkien's world-building was necessary for expression?

>>16702175
Do you have an understanding of what myth is according to Campbell? How it is more real, and contains more truth than reality itself? If you do, you'd know how it was all absolutely vital for expressing Tolkien's Christian world view and ideals. Every little bit was sculpted to express a certain value structure, a certain view on not only what the world is, but also where it is heading (with the fall of man, and the mythical aspects fading away). His study of language went hand in hand with the study of literature and reconstructing ancient mythology. It was all there for a reason, constructing a believable world was just a byproduct.

>>16702112
>It was there to express something, and not to be "fleshed out", "immersive
and how do you know this?

>>16702256
be quiet

>>16702043
Why are you always immediately posting in threads that start with a hot chick in the OP?

>>16702725
Am I?
I only notice when I post in blowjack and pepe threads.

>>16702037
stop it coomer

>>16702725
>>16702043
because she's thirsty.

>>16702020
obsessively read and take notes about everything from that time period. vidal spent 10 years researching for Julian.

>>16705519
desu I would be this narcissistic if I looked this good, too.

>>16702020
I have the same problem right now. There are books- author's aides specifically for this, but I don't know if they're worth anything, or just meme shit. I plan on reading at least two books- one non-fiction from the time period in general, and one biography. Archive.org has a lot of books actually written from different periods (I have a book written in the 1700s in my backlog about pirates).

I guess since we're so far removed from those times and places, we have no choice but to use a certain amount of imagination and guess-work.

of course, I'm writing a fantasy western, so I can probably get away with a lot more inaccuracies than people writing straight historical fiction can.