In trying to stay true to the past, this is the area in writing historical fiction where I struggle the most as I want my story to be as accurate as possible. From that detail, I had to imagine what kind of man he was, what he might have said to someone, what his actions might have been. For instance, it is documented that the Comte d’Artois was in debt and loved to gamble. I love writing historical fiction, but as with most books that take place in the past, as a writer, you are often guessing about the personalities of real people. What are the challenges of researching a book like this? When I saw a morning show about a man who was able to recall details of anything he saw after just a few minutes looking at it, I thought I could create an young artist with that skill-and that artistic ability would be one that would probably have captured the attention of someone as detail oriented as Madame Tussaud. But because I loved her story, I still wanted to examine the French Revolution from her perspective-that of someone who had been involved on both sides of the issues. As a protagonist for a YA novel, she was obviously too old. At the time of the Revolution, Madame Tussaud was in her late twenties/early thirties. When writing historical fiction, I try to stay as close to the real facts as I can.
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