One of the issues that seems to come up when beginning to
write this true story, is how much my creative side wants to just write and
write – whether what I’m saying is true or not. There is a lack of dialogue in
my research, as this is an aspect hard to find within historical study with
this time period. This brings the itching urge to write something in its place,
when that would be inaccurate. What dialogue I have found, I have stretched and
used to my advantage but feel it is lacking.
Another issue that arose, was creating my writing to be a
story rather than only facts. I didn’t want my story to sound like a history
book and in order to overcome this, I needed to build detail. I needed to focus
more on dramatizing the writing. For example, I knew that when Anne is taken to
the Privy Council, she is interrupted while watching a tennis match. I wanted
to write about the reactions of people around her when it happens, or how
people are acting before it happens, but there wasn’t much I could find. This
left me to interpret the moments on my own, putting myself in the situation of
someone around the Queen when she realises that she is about to fall from her
position. I’m still telling the story and it’s true, however I’m using descriptions
and my own mind to build up the scene.
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