Have you ever tried to read up on your family history, like, follow you're family tree back as far as you can and see who you were related to? If so, has it ever inspired you to write?
Well, yeah. My father's cousin, I think, made a large-scale research about our family tree. He lost the interest when he found out that two of my ancestors were sentenced to death for piracy around 1600's. Actually, they weren't really pirates, because they stood on islands and seashores and pretended to be a lighthouse to get the ships to wreck so they could loot them. After finding that out, he didn't want to continue his research anymore... So that's as far as I know. i think that's even pretty cool... Besides, neither of those brothers had any children, so technically I'm not their descendant.
Family history is interesting, but not interesting enough to make me write about it. This far it hasn't been inspirational enough. But when you think about it, I bet every single one of us is somehow related to important persons or even rulers in the past. It would be fun to know abou those kind of connections, though ^-^
Your character has a LiveJournal. How about giving us a sample entry?
This is for April Killigan, because I like her.
Aprillie's journal - Tuesday 24.24.1996 14:34
I found a wonderful new recipe today! I didn't know internet had these recipe journalsd. Oh no, how did that d get it there? How do you erase it? I better ask Jack when he comes home from scool. Oh no, another mistake! I'm not very good at this yet! Anyway, I found this new recipe for porridge. I found it very interesting, since it combined rice porridge and oatmeal porridge. Jack and Mari always complain about oatmeal, but rice isn't healthy enough for my standards. Maybe this will solve our breakfast dilemmas.
That same blog - is it a blog? i'm really very new to this internet thing - had some other very interesting recipes I'd like to try. Some were for pokemon cooking. Maybe should try to feed Balca - oh no, all these mistakes.... what am I going to do? I should feed her better, anyway, since she's getting old already. If raymond was still here, I could ask his opinion on these homemade pokemon foods. They might not be healthy, but I don't know. I'll ask Blanca's opinion too.
But the porridge I really have to try out. Ah! I can hear Jack is coming home. I better go ask him how to correct my mistakes with this thing. Oh, look, I wonder what that button does?
Aprillie's journal - Tuesday 24.24.1996 14:46
Oh, shoot, I wasn't going to post that uncorrected! I want to apologise for my mistakes. I also forgot to give the link to the blog I found, but I promise to do that late
Aprillie's journal - Tuesday 24.24.1996 14:57
Heh, I accidentally hit enter. So, I promise to post the link later. Now I'll try the recipe to see what the kids think. Maybe I'll make Balnca taste, too! How exiting!
-April