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From: LaVera.Rose at state.sd.us <LaVera.Rose>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:55:16 -0500
Dane Bauer wrote:
"First, how does a writer writing any kind of historical fiction use source material? "
My question is: Have you not heard of citations or giving credit where credit is due?? As an historian I expect to find a certain authenticity in historical fiction.? In order to have historical writing in a work of fiction there must be historical fact otherwise the work would be known as fiction!? What is so hard to understand?? If you use someone else's work word for word you need to give that writer their proper due in a note somewhere.? If you do not you are plagiarizing.?
As a writer on several planes, one of which is children's books, I think I have an obligation to myself, my reader, and the person whose work I quote, to research my topic thoroughly before writing.? Children are intelligent beings who deserve the best we as adults can give them.? That means demanding quality research and writing in historical fiction.? Ann Rinaldi and those like her who steal other writers words and misrepresent historical fact are not what I consider "the best" we can give our children.
LaVera Rose (author, historian, librarian, Lakota, mother, grandmother)
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Received on Fri 29 Oct 1999 10:55:16 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:55:16 -0500
Dane Bauer wrote:
"First, how does a writer writing any kind of historical fiction use source material? "
My question is: Have you not heard of citations or giving credit where credit is due?? As an historian I expect to find a certain authenticity in historical fiction.? In order to have historical writing in a work of fiction there must be historical fact otherwise the work would be known as fiction!? What is so hard to understand?? If you use someone else's work word for word you need to give that writer their proper due in a note somewhere.? If you do not you are plagiarizing.?
As a writer on several planes, one of which is children's books, I think I have an obligation to myself, my reader, and the person whose work I quote, to research my topic thoroughly before writing.? Children are intelligent beings who deserve the best we as adults can give them.? That means demanding quality research and writing in historical fiction.? Ann Rinaldi and those like her who steal other writers words and misrepresent historical fact are not what I consider "the best" we can give our children.
LaVera Rose (author, historian, librarian, Lakota, mother, grandmother)
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Received on Fri 29 Oct 1999 10:55:16 AM CDT
