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.
Who, what, when, where, why, and how? Six key questions for any storyteller to answer. But, even knowing that, how do you actually bring these vital tools to bear on your writing?
Westlake was a three-time winner of the Edgar Award and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, as well as an Academy Award nominee for his script writing. He is most famous for his comic mysteries starring melancholic criminal John Dortmunder and (as Richard Stark) his crime thrillers starring steely, workmanlike criminal Parker.
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