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In the first part of this series, we talked about why it was important to have a good understanding of history when drawing from historical sources for the purposes of worldbuilding. In the second part, we discussed the types of historical source material, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the ways to ensure that the end result of the historical research process isn't distorted by misconception or bias. Now, in this final part, it's time at last to talk about the culmination of a...
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In the last part of this article, I talked about why it was important for a creator to get their historical influences and sources right. I talked about the consequences of uncritically accepting potentially unreliable sources, the negative effects which such consequences have had in the past, and some of the common pitfalls which those with a casual interest in history often fall into. In this second part, I mean to talk about ways to research historical sources for a fictional narrative in ...
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Just a quick update: I'm working on some urgent stuff for Burden of Command at the moment, which means this month's Patreon articles may be 2-3 days late.
As a result, I'll be shifting back everything else this month as well. Regular scheduling should resume next month.
Thanks for your patience.
2020-10-09 06:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for October's articles.
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There are many advantages to using a history as a basis for a narrative. History is a vast and ready-made store of cultural practises, personalities, events, and social phenomena. Indeed, the fact that history is made up of narratives and ready-made stories is in the very composition of the word. In many cases, it is almost harder to avoid relying on history - either directly or in the form of historically inspired tropes - than to do otherwise. Indeed, the foundations of many genres...
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Exposition is a lot like water. Your fiction narrative can't live without it, but it will just easily drown if there's too much of it coming in too fast. Likewise, just as most people would prefer to drink something other than water once in a while, only a few people prefer to knowingly have their stories made entirely made up of exposition.
But before we go further, it's important to define what exposition is.
In broad terms, exposition is anything which delivers information whic...
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