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chelseagirl) wrote2021-08-02 07:08 am
chelseagirl) wrote2021-08-02 07:08 am
writing frustration and the corset myth
Aaargh.
Since my first novel was a Western historical romance, I joined various Facebook groups to promote it.
I JUST read a post where EVERY SINGLE RESPONDENT except me and one other buys the corset myth -- that they fainted, that they removed ribs, that they were all short of breath and in pain all the time. The other woman posted a link to a Bernadette Banner video, but she and I were swimming against a tide of "I heard, I read." (And yes, I can think of much more serious issues where the same is true, but I'm fortunate to mostly travel in circles where science is respected, for example, so I don't run into it.)
And some of these people WRITE historicals. No wonder there are so many books with wildly inaccurate depictions in them.
Meanwhile, I'm realizing just how much research there's left for me to do, even with a PhD in the period I'm writing in! But at least if it's the first of a series, all that research will pay off more than once.
I'd hoped to be querying by spring. I've realized that's not going to happen -- maybe fall 2022 will be enough time, to write the book I WANT to write. I suspect I could dash it off and find a small house that'd take it, but I wouldn't be happy with it. (Not dissing small houses!)
Since my first novel was a Western historical romance, I joined various Facebook groups to promote it.
I JUST read a post where EVERY SINGLE RESPONDENT except me and one other buys the corset myth -- that they fainted, that they removed ribs, that they were all short of breath and in pain all the time. The other woman posted a link to a Bernadette Banner video, but she and I were swimming against a tide of "I heard, I read." (And yes, I can think of much more serious issues where the same is true, but I'm fortunate to mostly travel in circles where science is respected, for example, so I don't run into it.)
And some of these people WRITE historicals. No wonder there are so many books with wildly inaccurate depictions in them.
Meanwhile, I'm realizing just how much research there's left for me to do, even with a PhD in the period I'm writing in! But at least if it's the first of a series, all that research will pay off more than once.
I'd hoped to be querying by spring. I've realized that's not going to happen -- maybe fall 2022 will be enough time, to write the book I WANT to write. I suspect I could dash it off and find a small house that'd take it, but I wouldn't be happy with it. (Not dissing small houses!)
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I'm so sorry. That's a rotten feeling.