Mon, Oct 13
|Via Zoom (link included in registration)
Writing a Historical Novel with Chris Farrar
To keep readers reading, historical fiction has to get the characters, the story, and the history right. Chris Farrar will discuss his experience meeting these challenges.
Time & Location
Oct 13, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Via Zoom (link included in registration)
Guests
About the event
Free for Supporting, Writer, and Patron members. $10 for everyone else. (If you're a member, be sure you're logged in!)
This event is online, but we're open to including an in-person option in Columbus, making it a hybrid gathering. If you'd be interested in that, please email Joe at info@ohiowriters.org
The reason so many of us don’t like history is that it’s taught in a boring, fact-focused way that has nothing to do with people we care about. Historical fiction is our revenge: it’s about believable people in desperate situations, set in a historical context that we absorb through our skin. We don’t need to memorize the history because we're living it as we read. Chris will focus on helping current and aspiring authors meet their own writing challenges and will also spend some time discussing the greatest of all writing problems, publication.
Chris Farrar has published By the Waters of Babylon and Light…