David Sedaris’ course ‘Storytelling and Humor’ is unsurprisingly charming and, well, funny. Much of the content feels more like an evening by the fire with a tremendously entertaining and classy friend than a rigorous writing course.
Unlike athletes, writers hit their peak pretty late in life. This is partly thanks to practice, partly because life experience yields richer stories, and partly because they’ve had a chance to learn from their past work and past selves.
What can you do when your well-researched historical fact just doesn’t feel realistic? Well, you’re facing the Tiffany problem.
If you want to win at historical fiction, your readers are going to need to feel like they fell into a deep sleep and woke up in a different world. To create that different world, you’re going to not only need to have all your facts straight, you’re going to need to paint a picture with all the right colors.
