Genealogy: Ideas For Fiction

About this episode

Diana Dirkby discusses how genealogy has become a surprising tool for fiction writing and shares her current project inspired by family history.

Send us Fan Mail #fiction #writers #fictionwriters #foster #fostercare #family A family mystery can do more than answer questions, it can hand you an entire novel. After a long break, I’m back to talk about why genealogy has become my most surprising tool for fiction writing, and how digging through records can turn half-remembered oral history into a living, research-backed story world. I share what I’m working on now: Stay Outside, an Australian foster story set around 1900, inspired by th...

People in this episode

Host: Diana Dirkby

Topics covered

• genealogy
• fiction writing
• family mystery
• foster care
• storytelling

Keywords

• genealogy
• fiction
• writing
• foster care
• family history
• storytelling
• Australia

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Stay Outside

Places: Australia

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