Comments for History Into Fiction http://historyintofiction.com The Writer's Craft of Recreating the Past in Novels and Movies Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Going over the top with Jules Romains by Lloyd Mintern http://historyintofiction.com/2008/10/going-over-the-top-with-jules-romains/#comment-124 Lloyd Mintern Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:14:10 +0000 http://historyintofiction.com/2008/10/going-over-the-top-with-jules-romains/#comment-124 I just read "The Death of a Nobody" by Jules Romains, and found it incredible and unique. He has a point of view like no other writer I have encountered, producing the most poignant moments rendered from events happening in a crowd. This writer is due for a major revival, I can feel it; he was totally famous mid 20th century in France. His masterpiece is "Men of Good Will" which I am now reading. So you are fortunate to have been directed to him, however clumsily or circumstantially. I just read “The Death of a Nobody” by Jules Romains, and found it incredible and unique. He has a point of view like no other writer I have encountered, producing the most poignant moments rendered from events happening in a crowd. This writer is due for a major revival, I can feel it; he was totally famous mid 20th century in France. His masterpiece is “Men of Good Will” which I am now reading. So you are fortunate to have been directed to him, however clumsily or circumstantially.

]]> Comment on About this blog by Katherine Kama'ema'e Smith http://historyintofiction.com/2008/07/about-this-blog/#comment-33 Katherine Kama'ema'e Smith Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:57:45 +0000 http://historyintofiction.com/2008/07/about-this-blog/#comment-33 Aloha kaua e Glen; I happened on your site looking for organizations for historical novelists. Good posts, but no comments, so I decided to say Aloha. The Love Remains is my first book, and I am now finished with research on another, but taking time to synthecize my characters before writing. The process forces me to live most of my day in prehistoric Hawaii, a kind of "method" experience, not necessarily planned, but more a function of prehistory information load; in trying to remember all I have researched, there are few neurons left to consider modern life around me. I don't much care to, either. A simple trip to the grocery leaves me giggling, struck with wonder at the array of food offerings and technology, as if I were experiencing it for the first time. Do you ever get so deep into your storyworld that returning to "now" creates time shock? me ka aloha, Kama'ema'e Aloha kaua e Glen;
I happened on your site looking for organizations for historical novelists. Good posts, but no comments, so I decided to say Aloha.

The Love Remains is my first book, and I am now finished with research on another, but taking time to synthecize my characters before writing. The process forces me to live most of my day in prehistoric Hawaii, a kind of “method” experience, not necessarily planned, but more a function of prehistory information load; in trying to remember all I have researched, there are few neurons left to consider modern life around me. I don’t much care to, either. A simple trip to the grocery leaves me giggling, struck with wonder at the array of food offerings and technology, as if I were experiencing it for the first time. Do you ever get so deep into your storyworld that returning to “now” creates time shock?

me ka aloha,

Kama’ema’e

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