Not that he wasn’t a huge part of my life before, but now that I’m writing this, he’s all over the place.
I’m really excited about this. I’ve still only written two pages of the story, but there is so much going on in my head and in my notebook! At the moment, I have some pages filled with information, thoughts, and little pieces of drafts of moments, all jumbled together. In multiple ink colors. All indicating something different. Hopefully, I’ll continue to keep it all straight!
I’ve also figured out that the story will begin in 1591, just before the first performance of Henry VI Part 1 by Lord Strange’s Men at the Rose Theatre. The tentative end of the story might be in 1603 when he prints Hamlet. Maybe.
I love this. Researching the people he was involved with, the timeline of when he might have written things… It’s interesting to see what might have happened between himself and other people. What would have inspired him to write what he did and when he did. Really, it’s all hypothesizing, but that’s why it’s called historical fiction.
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