History in Place Writing assignment:
1.
Choose a place in your novel and describe it with its history. Integrate what
was there by first describing both the present, and the absent, and then the
present and the past.
2.
Or take a setting out of a folktale, fairy tale or actual history in another
town/era/culture that bears the same thematic ‘map’ and use it doing the above
exercise.
For
example: many stories have travelers lost in a forest. Maybe the forest in your
town is still young so borrow an ancient one as its back history.
3.
After you have chosen and written one from an “historical” viewpoint, rewrite
it from a family history perspective within the same framework.
Share:
What worked well? What was difficult?
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