It is summer. Every summer I work on a novel. This year, I am finishing a Scot Historical based in 1550. However, at Enspiren Press, we have been doing a lot of work on Victorian and Edwardian novels.
At a recent editor's meeting we discussed the aspect of helping writers visualize their setting. It is hard to visualize something you have never seen, but that doesn't mean you cannot see it.
There are ample opportunities to see something with the lustur of old wood, the design of a time gone by, and the size of an era when space and resources were not at a premium. I like to direct writers to online furniture stores. Many of them carry reproductions. While bathroom vanities did not exhist back then, the image in the writer's mind, can help them write something that has tone, mood, and 'feels' real to the story's reader.
After all, a story must come to life or it isn't worth the time needed to write it.
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