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[erastes]

Plot Schmot

Oh Bah bah and thrice bah!

Why do I have try to be accurate? Why can’t I just write the blithering thing and not worry about whether words like Jingoism were in circulation in 1816? (it wasn’t). Why do I care whether Sandhurst existed or not? (It didn’t) Why do I care what the weather was like??? grrrrr.

Research holds things UP.

*stabs self* I want to be the sort of writer who DOESN’T GIVE A STUFF.

*stabs characters*

This Is all gehayi’s fault anyway. *stabs her* She made it expand into a novel. We brainstormed last night and now I’ve got character traits for one of my gay young men, and a strong woman character (which makes a first for me)

I don’t actually have any PLOT so the characters will have to work that out as they go along, as usual. *pokes them*

And I’ve just contacted a web designer regarding a new website…. *excited *

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[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Jingoism was in common use by 1878. "By Jingo" used by 1695, but only as an exclamation.

As for kids in the 60's ... it depends a little on where they lived and family income. But 'designer jeans' weren't around -- unless you count Levis or Lee Rider jeans. Depends on how old the kids were, too. And what part of the decade, too; it went from post-WW2 to wild&crazy hippie stuff. And there was a period where pseudo-Edwardian, "Carnaby Street" clothes were in - huge lapels, ties you could use for signal flags .... interesting decade, though I was in parochial-school uniforms for much of it.

You wouldn't like being a writer who doesn't care. Can you imagine anything worse than despising one's own writing?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'd do without the darling online etymology dictionary. So much so that I gave it an acknowledgement in Standish. I stuck with patriotic and warlike in the end.

I do take a lot of satisfaction in getting it as right as I can, but BAH! I get frustrated with it at the time. LJ was saved my rantings about Standish because I hadn't discovered it at the time.

About the sixties, yes, that's the trouble, this boy is very ordinary, living in a normal suburb in a town in England and his mother buys his clothes, so he just wears ordinary jeans and tee shirts and jumpers and he has ordinary trousers for "best" but I think i will do that photo call that was suggested. Even if people are too young, they might have pictures of their parents in the early 60s in England.