In media res...

[skaldic]

I've been working on science fiction and fantasy for a long time and now that I've switched genres to historical fiction, I'm finding that it's causing me a bit of a problem.

Don't get me wrong -- I love SF/F.  I'm a hard-core fan and I always will be. But there are a number of things about SF/F writing that seem to be causing me problems at the

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[acmespaceship]

Character arc is (almost) always the priority, right? If your villain needs 1933, then give him 1933.

But then I'm happy with rapid time jumps and I don't need things to stay in chronological order (I'm a Tom Stoppard fan, for crying out loud). If you want to make it a leisurely and linear trip from 1933 to 1936, then as you say, you'll need to give the characters some action... or add more characters. That whole psychological process of moving from ambiguity about Hitler to firm opposition -- that's damn interesting and worth exploring.

This is going to become a trilogy, right? ;-)