L. Douglas Garrett
I talk a lot about that here on my personal weblog https://ldgarrettfiction.blogspot.com... but a short answer would be: I seek out something from the era and topic I am to write about (music; a photo; a keepsake) and use that to help get me in the right mindset to create fiction about it.
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