tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post2711924692869271929..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Facts and Fiction; by Leslie WilsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-28593360810970251742010-09-29T01:31:45.386+01:002010-09-29T01:31:45.386+01:00Sorry, I missed this, Leslie - I rarely get chance...Sorry, I missed this, Leslie - I rarely get chance to look at ABBA even tho I write for it. Have just posted more briefly on a related issue. Just to say, I entirely agree with you as I'm sure would my learned friend Eric, Emeritus Professor of History and castigator of twaddle in historical fiction of whatever period. Keep on thumping!Meg Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461125464455502821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-76499392257434129702010-09-16T20:59:52.653+01:002010-09-16T20:59:52.653+01:00Excellent post, Leslie. I agree entirely about the...Excellent post, Leslie. I agree entirely about the responsibility to be accurate. What I'm writing at the moment is set in 16th-century Italy - much longer ago and less likely to touch any raw nerves, but I feel my reponsibility both to truth and to the people of the time is the same.Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-69010432248423077272010-09-16T16:19:07.357+01:002010-09-16T16:19:07.357+01:00Very important stuff Leslie, I agree about the res...Very important stuff Leslie, I agree about the research and feel we must immerse ourselves in order to write the best and most convincing fiction. The most important part for me of all of this is your desire to reclaim your family story, which firmly belongs to you and underpins your identity. History is important as it provides us for the basis for moving forward and hopefully coming to terms with all our pasts.Miriam Halahmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04935448538608020877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-82295269088041869712010-09-16T14:54:59.164+01:002010-09-16T14:54:59.164+01:00Hear hear...and there's a particular responsib...Hear hear...and there's a particular responsibility to be accurate when writing for children who do not have very much knowledge about the Holocaust.Keren Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121027210783177857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-50441608300142324712010-09-16T13:16:04.521+01:002010-09-16T13:16:04.521+01:00Thanks, Leslie, for this passionate plea for respo...Thanks, Leslie, for this passionate plea for responsibility in creative writing. I wholly agree.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-77656922300212896792010-09-16T12:38:53.390+01:002010-09-16T12:38:53.390+01:00Stay on the tub, Leslie! You're needed up ther...Stay on the tub, Leslie! You're needed up there.John Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11937505376169411724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72196238533345981622010-09-16T10:10:36.563+01:002010-09-16T10:10:36.563+01:00This is fascinating, Lesley. It's particularly...This is fascinating, Lesley. It's particularly interesting to me at the moment, as my son's just done an MA thesis on how the Holocaust has been memorialised/remembered, which comes to a similar conclusion to yours - that you must look carefully at the evidence, and on the basis of that, learn and apply those lessons. As you say, fiction can be part of that process, but it has a duty to be accurate - perhaps more so than when it's dealing with other subjects. On the other hand, perhaps there's a danger that it's such a significant and (naturally) emotive subject that it's easier not to approach it at all - even now, I'm thinking, why don't I just shut up? What do I know?Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.com