tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313651519637984862.post2490177011072082213..comments2024-01-17T01:33:02.302-08:00Comments on The Riddle of Writing: Research and The Jigsaw of my PlotDeborah Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594174632573628818noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313651519637984862.post-11375294938649808222010-01-24T10:15:31.459-08:002010-01-24T10:15:31.459-08:00Hello Frances,
Do you know, I have really no idea,...Hello Frances,<br />Do you know, I have really no idea, despite my best efforts to find out. That's the thing about events before the advent of photography, you are reliant on one man's painting that survived 400 years - but I do know that the Thames freezing was a fairly regular occurrence. But for a writer the fact that history has these blurred edges is a sort of gift, because where the factual research gives out or comes to a dead end, then that's where my imagination can take over and range around the probabilities, deciding for myself if the freeze happened again in the year I am writing about or not.<br />This links in to your blog question about fiction - there is something satisfying about ordering a world to your own design, and in the "real" world we are too often interrupted by other people trying to order the world to theirs! At least in fiction we have full control. (or at least we are supposed to.)Deborah Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10594174632573628818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313651519637984862.post-54282916127848843852010-01-22T12:02:35.867-08:002010-01-22T12:02:35.867-08:00That is an amazing picture, Deborah. Was that a on...That is an amazing picture, Deborah. Was that a one-off, or had it haopened before (or since)?Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.com