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@skredder Have you ever read the Viking Quest series by Lois Walfrid Johnson?  It is about an Irish girl who is kidnapped by vikings and made a slave.  It’s a very interesting series, and one of my favorites.  It would give you a good starting idea of the culture and history of the time period, and you could research from there on.

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@jenwriter17 I love soccer!  It’s my favorite sport to play – until I learn tennis someday hopefully. 🙂 What position do you play?  Any other sports?

Hi @jenwriter17

Thanks for the welcome! 🙂

I play the piano and the harp.  (Does the harp match the guitar?  They both have strings…)

@skredder There are several different types of amnesia.  Usually with the type of amnesia I think you are talking about the amnesics are able to remember basic things like tying shoes, riding a bicycle, and reading.  Sometimes the amnesic effects are random, such as a bilingual forgetting one language, but remembering another.  (That could ac…[Read more]

@skredder by the way, amnesia is one of my favorite plots!

Something to note might be that the Irish in that period were Christians/Catholics, but the pervading religion in Scandinavia was that of the Norse gods such as Odin and Thor.  A possible theme could be your MC’s attempts to teach her friends Christianity (not in the normal, Christian fiction book way, this actually was a big theme back in the…[Read more]

Yesss! It did work.  Thanks so much, @dekreel!

@dekreel

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@mariposa

Is that a challenge? 🙂

How about my personal favorites, the several anthology shows, including but not limited to, General Electric Theater (Ronald Reagan), Four Star Playhouse, Studio One, and The June Allyson Show?

Then for actual series, have you seen It Takes a Thief with the wonderful Robert Wagner and the amazing Fred Asta…[Read more]

Oh, @jane-maree see above.  I didn’t see your post until I had posted.

@mariposa Since they are for children’s books,  they can be simple or detailed, and I don’t really have a preference for black/white or color, except that color would probably sell better.  I don’t mind if the illustrations are a little cartoonish, though I like realistic better.  The biggest negative about cartoonish drawings is that I cannot st…[Read more]

@epicaddie2 You should definitely look up Sight and Sound.  They have only two theaters, one in Branson, Missouri, and the other in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but they have all of their musicals on DVD and the soundtracks on CD.  If you want a quick look into what they do, they have several trailers and behind-the-scenes videos on YouTube.

@itisastarrynight Haha!  I’m so glad, but – what is, specifically? 🙂

@epicaddie2 Are there any other musicals you like?  I prefer the older ones, like Oklahoma!, Show Boat, and Roberta.

Have you heard of Sight and Sound Theaters?  They do musicals based on Biblical stories such as Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth.  They are AMAZING!

@epicaddie2 I think I had heard of it before, but I just skimmed through the synopsis on Wikipedia and decided I don’t like it. 🙂

I am a stickler for historical accuracy, and so any blatant portrayal of historical figures by someone who purposefully does not look like them will not interest me.  As an example, my family went to see the…[Read more]

@epicaddie2 I am left-handed.

Who is Peggy?

@daeus I wouldn’t mind sharing my poems, but the format of this forum is not great for posting poems here.  Between every line is a double-space, which would make the poem twice as long as it is supposed to be.  If you could recommend how to feasibly post a poem, I can do so.

@kballen Hi! I’m not sure what my favorite food is, but a couple t…[Read more]

@notawriter and @itisastarrynight I like Opera/Operetta because it’s fun to sing, and I love popular songs and musicals from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.  Especially songs by Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, and Jo Stafford.  My favorite composer is Jerome Kern, who wrote Show Boat and Roberta.

And of course, the old hymns.  My family went to a Chris…[Read more]