Many writers fail to realize accurate research is the key to writing plausible stories. It’s understandable, so to speak, as many genres set in current times require little research other than an ability to absorb news stories and TV entertainment shows. However, that sort of literary pablum grows ever more tedious as hundreds of thousands of aspiring writers churn out hollow works with little real substance.
As a professional writer and journalist I, subconsciously knew that for years. BUT, only in the last decade have I truly come to realize the differences between many writers of modern novels who create settings out of whole cloth and those with ACCURATE historical backgrounds.
I’ve spent a decade researching Northeastern Woodlands Indians for a planned “Epic” but realized there’s so little valid information about tribes that lived before the European Invasion of the Americas that such a book might as well be listed as a “fantasy.” Only the Jesuit Relations of 1600s Canada contained substantive material and constructing a vibrant story from tedious public relations tracts of that era were virtually counterproductive. How does any author produce a lively, animated story from tedious fund raising texts almost 400 years old?
Then I realized what was needed was to take the available historical facts and intertwine them with a story plot that would appeal to modern readers. The result: Longhouse Homicide, my just published Novella about the first serial murders in North America.
Without police forces, tribal leaders band together to discover the perpetrators of the first murders in North American history and, without a court system, punish the perpetrators.
The criminal pursuit stretches across Ontario and Quebec and discloses an international criminal conspiracy. Longhouse Homicide by Larry Moniz is available as a Kindle Book.
As a professional writer and journalist I, subconsciously knew that for years. BUT, only in the last decade have I truly come to realize the differences between many writers of modern novels who create settings out of whole cloth and those with ACCURATE historical backgrounds.
I’ve spent a decade researching Northeastern Woodlands Indians for a planned “Epic” but realized there’s so little valid information about tribes that lived before the European Invasion of the Americas that such a book might as well be listed as a “fantasy.” Only the Jesuit Relations of 1600s Canada contained substantive material and constructing a vibrant story from tedious public relations tracts of that era were virtually counterproductive. How does any author produce a lively, animated story from tedious fund raising texts almost 400 years old?
Then I realized what was needed was to take the available historical facts and intertwine them with a story plot that would appeal to modern readers. The result: Longhouse Homicide, my just published Novella about the first serial murders in North America.
Without police forces, tribal leaders band together to discover the perpetrators of the first murders in North American history and, without a court system, punish the perpetrators.
The criminal pursuit stretches across Ontario and Quebec and discloses an international criminal conspiracy. Longhouse Homicide by Larry Moniz is available as a Kindle Book.