So, to make this thread more lively again, I'm going to go with an old technique: talk about something sompletely irrelevant.
So, yesterday there was a serious blizzard here in Finland. The wind was so strong it caused blackouts and brought down some trees and whatnot, and there were a over half a meter (1 foot 8,5 inches) of snow. That, of course, messed up the traffic. So, today, when I left to school, I had to walk up to my knees in snow and because all roads where frozen and snowy, a truck crashed with my tram and the conveyor had to stop for ten minutes to take the names and numbers of any witnesses. Thus, I was late for school.
Then, to a subject that has something to do with writing.
Yesterday, when my mom came home from the bookstore, she told me about this book she had seen. In this book, there was this girl and this vampire boy who fell in love but their relationship would never work because the girl grew older and the boy did not. My mom rolled her eyes when she told me it was a series that probably had some 3000 pages. I laughed and told her to never buy me a book like that.
Later that day, I found out that the book was the Twilight! The one that has been mocked all over the internet! Even my little brother knew it was a book everyone hates (but some people love passionately) and he had even thought it was a joke. Such a small world this internet! Oh my, was I amused. Maybe I should try and read the first book to see what you're all talking about.
Hmm, that didn't have much to do with writing after all...
If you had to make a story happen in a historical era and a real place - better still if you've written a story like that - what would that place and that time be? It can also be fanfiction!
I'd make it happen in feudal Japan (or an older period of time) or in ancient Egypt. That's because those are the places and times I know most about... if you count World War Two out. Maybe I'd use WW2, though, and the place would be the Soviet Union, China or Japan. Maybe.
So, yesterday there was a serious blizzard here in Finland. The wind was so strong it caused blackouts and brought down some trees and whatnot, and there were a over half a meter (1 foot 8,5 inches) of snow. That, of course, messed up the traffic. So, today, when I left to school, I had to walk up to my knees in snow and because all roads where frozen and snowy, a truck crashed with my tram and the conveyor had to stop for ten minutes to take the names and numbers of any witnesses. Thus, I was late for school.
Spoiler:
And to think that in places like England schools are closed on days when there's a lousy one centimeter of snow in the ground! Here we have to go to school even if there were two meters of snow and -28 degrees Celcius (-18F)! Only when it's -30 degrees Celsius (-22F) the schools are closed. And that's only in the southern part of this country.
Better still: in Vietnam, all the schools and offices are closed when it's as cold as 16 degrees Celsius (that'd be 60 degrees Fahrenheit). You see, it would be uncomfortable for people to go to work or school in such a cold weather. Here we think it's a nice, warm spring weather.
Everything is so relative...
Better still: in Vietnam, all the schools and offices are closed when it's as cold as 16 degrees Celsius (that'd be 60 degrees Fahrenheit). You see, it would be uncomfortable for people to go to work or school in such a cold weather. Here we think it's a nice, warm spring weather.
Everything is so relative...
Then, to a subject that has something to do with writing.
Yesterday, when my mom came home from the bookstore, she told me about this book she had seen. In this book, there was this girl and this vampire boy who fell in love but their relationship would never work because the girl grew older and the boy did not. My mom rolled her eyes when she told me it was a series that probably had some 3000 pages. I laughed and told her to never buy me a book like that.
Later that day, I found out that the book was the Twilight! The one that has been mocked all over the internet! Even my little brother knew it was a book everyone hates (but some people love passionately) and he had even thought it was a joke. Such a small world this internet! Oh my, was I amused. Maybe I should try and read the first book to see what you're all talking about.
Hmm, that didn't have much to do with writing after all...
If you had to make a story happen in a historical era and a real place - better still if you've written a story like that - what would that place and that time be? It can also be fanfiction!
I'd make it happen in feudal Japan (or an older period of time) or in ancient Egypt. That's because those are the places and times I know most about... if you count World War Two out. Maybe I'd use WW2, though, and the place would be the Soviet Union, China or Japan. Maybe.