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Subject: Rules about writing historical fiction?
Date Posted: 11/10/2020 10:46 PM ET
Member Since: 2/7/2013
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I want to write a children's fiction story that includes a real King. Can I write things that aren't true about them?

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Date Posted: 7/29/2021 9:44 PM ET
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I would think so...it could be alternative history. 

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Date Posted: 2/7/2022 5:22 PM ET
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No real rule for writing, as long as you present it as fiction.  You go girl!