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Post by ronmiller on Feb 5, 2020 18:13:10 GMT
According to the Pharaonic Calendar this is the year 6261.
Most calendars have the start point as some significant event for the society that creates them, whether due to religious belief or other factors.
Creating a world isn't so difficult, think of it like cooking. Gather your basic ingredients [as in what happened to make the world what it is], check for internal consistency [as in make sure your details are in the right order for the story], then start adding ingredients [general plot, characters, and so on].
One example is your time traveler could be dropped into a future where the year [according to the locals] is 2903, yet it isn't 883 years into our future, it's 2903 years after our current civilization has crashed and humanity had to start over and achieved some stability. In other words the Year 1 would be when civil order had been restored on a fairly large scale.
As for how your traveler gets to the future, Ambrose Bierce collected a lot of stories about people who simply disappeared, sometimes while being observed. One of his stories was about someone who vanished while walking across a field, the person's footprints simply stopped, no body to be found -- if memory serves that person was under observation when he vanished.
So glad I posted for ideas. So inspiring and gets the writer juices flowing. Ambrose Bierce. I will look her up. Ambrose was a he. I think you will enjoy his stories. Some of them, like "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge," are genuine classics. He even wrote science fiction in "The Damned Thing." One of the books he's probably best known for is "The Devil's Dictionary," which is both one of the funniest and most cynical things ever written. And speaking of missing people, Bierce is on the list. In 1913 he went to Mexico report on the revolution there and disappeared forever.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 5, 2020 18:17:17 GMT
H. Beam Piper wrote a famous short story, "He Walked Around the Horses" (1948), based on the mysterious disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst in 1809. Charles Fort collected scores of similar accounts in his books, "The Book of the Damned" and "Lo!" I think I am being led to where I am meant to go. My heart is racing at the pinpointing of what I find interesting. You don't know what you're looking for until you see it. Thank you, I will look them up. There has been a magazine inspired by Charles Fort that has been published for decades: The Fortean Times. I've been a subscriber to it forever. subscribe.forteantimes.com/ It's published in England so Canadian news stands and bookstores should carry it (many large US bookstores do). Every issue has germs of idea for stories!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 5, 2020 21:18:48 GMT
According to the Pharaonic Calendar this is the year 6261.
Most calendars have the start point as some significant event for the society that creates them, whether due to religious belief or other factors.
Creating a world isn't so difficult, think of it like cooking. Gather your basic ingredients [as in what happened to make the world what it is], check for internal consistency [as in make sure your details are in the right order for the story], then start adding ingredients [general plot, characters, and so on].
One example is your time traveler could be dropped into a future where the year [according to the locals] is 2903, yet it isn't 883 years into our future, it's 2903 years after our current civilization has crashed and humanity had to start over and achieved some stability. In other words the Year 1 would be when civil order had been restored on a fairly large scale.
As for how your traveler gets to the future, Ambrose Bierce collected a lot of stories about people who simply disappeared, sometimes while being observed. One of his stories was about someone who vanished while walking across a field, the person's footprints simply stopped, no body to be found -- if memory serves that person was under observation when he vanished.
So glad I posted for ideas. So inspiring and gets the writer juices flowing. Ambrose Bierce. I will look her up. Glad to have been of help.
Time to get my hands in hot dishwater as wielding a chainsaw for a couple hours for the first time in two years is a bit hard on arthritis. I just glad I was able to get it fired up.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 5, 2020 21:19:38 GMT
I think I am being led to where I am meant to go. My heart is racing at the pinpointing of what I find interesting. You don't know what you're looking for until you see it. Thank you, I will look them up. There has been a magazine inspired by Charles Fort that has been published for decades: The Fortean Times. I've been a subscriber to it forever. subscribe.forteantimes.com/ It's published in England so Canadian news stands and bookstores should carry it (many large US bookstores do). Every issue has germs of idea for stories! "The Fortean Times", will bookmark to subscribe once I have spare funds.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 5, 2020 21:45:37 GMT
There has been a magazine inspired by Charles Fort that has been published for decades: The Fortean Times. I've been a subscriber to it forever. subscribe.forteantimes.com/ It's published in England so Canadian news stands and bookstores should carry it (many large US bookstores do). Every issue has germs of idea for stories! "The Fortean Times", will bookmark to subscribe once I have spare funds. There is a digital edition that is much cheaper than the print magazine. That's the version I have gotten for the past 3 or 4 years.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 5, 2020 23:14:19 GMT
"The Fortean Times", will bookmark to subscribe once I have spare funds. There is a digital edition that is much cheaper than the print magazine. That's the version I have gotten for the past 3 or 4 years. Call me a Luddite or Amish [if you wish] but I prefer the print. Perhaps one day the kids will appreciate those print versions as well.
I just don't care for the virtual aspect when it comes to books or magazines.
When it comes to swords [edged weapons in general], books, or cookware, feeling the weight is a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 23:24:24 GMT
So glad I posted for ideas. So inspiring and gets the writer juices flowing. Ambrose Bierce. I will look her up. Ambrose was a he. I think you will enjoy his stories. Some of them, like "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge," are genuine classics. He even wrote science fiction in "The Damned Thing." One of the books he's probably best known for is "The Devil's Dictionary," which is both one of the funniest and most cynical things ever written. And speaking of missing people, Bierce is on the list. In 1913 he went to Mexico report on the revolution there and disappeared forever. Yesss... I noticed there is no death date.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 23:27:07 GMT
I think I am being led to where I am meant to go. My heart is racing at the pinpointing of what I find interesting. You don't know what you're looking for until you see it. Thank you, I will look them up. There has been a magazine inspired by Charles Fort that has been published for decades: The Fortean Times. I've been a subscriber to it forever. subscribe.forteantimes.com/ It's published in England so Canadian news stands and bookstores should carry it (many large US bookstores do). Every issue has germs of idea for stories! Ron, the link isn't working. But I'll look it up. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 23:28:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 23:31:26 GMT
So glad I posted for ideas. So inspiring and gets the writer juices flowing. Ambrose Bierce. I will look her up. Glad to have been of help.
Time to get my hands in hot dishwater as wielding a chainsaw for a couple hours for the first time in two years is a bit hard on arthritis. I just glad I was able to get it fired up.
You have arthritis? I'm obsessed with making pain go away. I wrote a children's book 16 years ago telling it to go away. Now I want to make one bidding it goodbye forever. Today was the first day in so long I felt kind of good. I have tried many things. Let's see if this one sticks.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 6, 2020 0:02:18 GMT
Glad to have been of help.
Time to get my hands in hot dishwater as wielding a chainsaw for a couple hours for the first time in two years is a bit hard on arthritis. I just glad I was able to get it fired up.
You have arthritis? I'm obsessed with making pain go away. I wrote a children's book 16 years ago telling it to go away. Now I want to make one bidding it goodbye forever. Today was the first day in so long I felt kind of good. I have tried many things. Let's see if this one sticks. Aye, I have arthritis. People like me are [per nature] disposable, meaning reaching old age tends to be painful. My hands used to be hyper-flexible [what you would term double-jointed]. Hitting the ground running, no problem. Storming castle walls and exterminating all defenders, child's-play. Withstanding injuries as would debilitate most, consider it done. Surviving past 40 to 50 pain-free, not happening. Surviving past 80 to 90, your choice as to blessing or curse.
Pain lets us know we're still alive and not out of our minds. I'll take feeling the effects of time and a life hard-lived over feeling nothing, as for us that way is the path of oblivion. We always hope to go out with a bang, not a whimper...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 1:44:25 GMT
You have arthritis? I'm obsessed with making pain go away. I wrote a children's book 16 years ago telling it to go away. Now I want to make one bidding it goodbye forever. Today was the first day in so long I felt kind of good. I have tried many things. Let's see if this one sticks. Aye, I have arthritis. People like me are [per nature] disposable, meaning reaching old age tends to be painful. My hands used to be hyper-flexible [what you would term double-jointed]. Hitting the ground running, no problem. Storming castle walls and exterminating all defenders, child's-play. Withstanding injuries as would debilitate most, consider it done. Surviving past 40 to 50 pain-free, not happening. Surviving past 80 to 90, your choice as to blessing or curse.
Pain lets us know we're still alive and not out of our minds. I'll take feeling the effects of time and a life hard-lived over feeling nothing, as for us that way is the path of oblivion. We always hope to go out with a bang, not a whimper...
I don't like it, at all. Can't console myself in any way. I want it gone. Tonight I am using a heated shoulder brace from Amazon. I hope it works. If I become a millionaire, or just rich, I will send you a healing item every month.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 6, 2020 21:12:30 GMT
Aye, I have arthritis. People like me are [per nature] disposable, meaning reaching old age tends to be painful. My hands used to be hyper-flexible [what you would term double-jointed]. Hitting the ground running, no problem. Storming castle walls and exterminating all defenders, child's-play. Withstanding injuries as would debilitate most, consider it done. Surviving past 40 to 50 pain-free, not happening. Surviving past 80 to 90, your choice as to blessing or curse.
Pain lets us know we're still alive and not out of our minds. I'll take feeling the effects of time and a life hard-lived over feeling nothing, as for us that way is the path of oblivion. We always hope to go out with a bang, not a whimper...
I don't like it, at all. Can't console myself in any way. I want it gone. Tonight I am using a heated shoulder brace from Amazon. I hope it works. If I become a millionaire, or just rich, I will send you a healing item every month. Maggie,
For me the warm part of the year is less painful, and getting back to work outdoors carries its own aches and pains [due to recoditioning after getting deconditioned to certain activities]. It's all good.
At the end of the day every juniper timber I can set in place to control future erosion is worth the short-term discomfort.
One thing to consider is you can incorporate some of your discomfort into one of the characters in your novel. Characters with some real world concerns tend to be more believable.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 22:39:17 GMT
I don't like it, at all. Can't console myself in any way. I want it gone. Tonight I am using a heated shoulder brace from Amazon. I hope it works. If I become a millionaire, or just rich, I will send you a healing item every month. Maggie,
For me the warm part of the year is less painful, and getting back to work outdoors carries its own aches and pains [due to recoditioning after getting deconditioned to certain activities]. It's all good.
At the end of the day every juniper timber I can set in place to control future erosion is worth the short-term discomfort.
One thing to consider is you can incorporate some of your discomfort into one of the characters in your novel. Characters with some real world concerns tend to be more believable. That's a good idea, actually. She can have shoulder pain and miss all her devices. Or maybe a man...I don't think it would be as interesting in this case. They would stone h in for being too soft, back then.
I did an insane amount of work yesterday and today. Not so much pain, almost none. I felt asleep with my beautiful brace.
Give me a few names, Cameron--if you have any. Rose is too obvious. My full first name is too loaded. I need something loaded but not obviously.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 6, 2020 23:35:56 GMT
Maggie,
For me the warm part of the year is less painful, and getting back to work outdoors carries its own aches and pains [due to recoditioning after getting deconditioned to certain activities]. It's all good.
At the end of the day every juniper timber I can set in place to control future erosion is worth the short-term discomfort.
One thing to consider is you can incorporate some of your discomfort into one of the characters in your novel. Characters with some real world concerns tend to be more believable. That's a good idea, actually. She can have shoulder pain and miss all her devices. Or maybe a man...I don't think it would be as interesting in this case. They would stone h in for being too soft, back then.
I did an insane amount of work yesterday and today. Not so much pain, almost none. I felt asleep with my beautiful brace.
Give me a few names, Cameron--if you have any. Rose is too obvious. My full first name is too loaded. I need something loaded but not obviously.
Names are not so hard, given parameters.
Era, physical gender of the character, place of residence, and / or ethnicity go a long way toward names that fit the setting, in the present or past sense.
Names from the future, those are kind of a wing it thing unless you have a particular heritage the characters ultimately descend from.
Remember one thing, cultures in the far past usually weren't as into killing the non-conforming unless something like crop failures, social unrest, or epidemic diseases were an issue. What someone might run into in the future could be similar, or very different depending upon the situation.
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