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@kate-flournoy YES! I read this one almost exactly a year ago, actually, and I loved it too. It’s one of those books that really makes you think, and I can honestly say a year later, it has made me treasure freedom of speech and writing more. It has helped me not take those freedoms for granted.
Glad you loved it! 🙂 Philosophers unite!
Also, @daeus, that is a distressing paradox. Did you figure it out?
1. The Hobbit
2. Charlotte’s Web
3. Ender’s GameThanks for the tagging, as always, @daeus! Ummm…Charlotte’s Web sounds good actually. 😛
Also, @hannah-krynicki I knew you looked familiar. XD CP-ers unite!
*is late to the party and wasn’t asked but*
That is seriously a perfect name, Hope. I love it!
Sorry, I forgot to mention earlier that I’ll be sitting out this round. 🙂 Happy studying to the rest of y’all!
@daeus You’re good! I need to remember to check this more often.
Thanks for tagging me. I tend to forget I haven’t checked KP in forever, then it emails me when someone tags me and I’m like “Oh hey, that’s right, KP forums are a thing.”
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Anyway, this sounds like a cool idea! I’m not sure I could commit to it in this season of life, but it is definitely something I’ve thought about before and it’s true, you do learn a lot more if you read books with the intent to learn how the author does things–and discussing it with others is absolutely beneficial.
It has occurred to me before that Australians and Floridians share a certain kinship around Christmas weather. 😛
Hey Australians, do y’all find the songs that talk about snow and such as ridiculous as we do? 😉
(To the rest of you, imagine listening to/singing songs like “Jingle Bells” and “Let it Snow” while sweating as you haul out the Christmas lights.)
Ahem! Thank you to whoever tagged me, because I had no clue this discussion existed.
Hi. I am originally from North Carolina, and I would like to protest that it is a beautiful state, despite the smallish bit of snow in the Piedmont region. 😛 (There is plenty of snow in the mountains…) Also, I do know why it is called the Tar Heel State! (Yay for studying NC history in 3rd grade…) Well, actually, consensus varies, but the version I learned is that it was a nickname given during the Civil War because the North Carolinian soldiers stood their ground like there was tar on their heels holding them there. 😛 Other opinions say that the name came from NC’s history in the tar/turpentine industry.
Here’s a quote about that Civil War version:
In the third volume of Walter Clark’s Histories of the Several Regiments from North Carolina in the Great War, the author explains that the nickname came about when North Carolina troops held their ground during a battle in Virginia during the American Civil War while other supporting troops retreated. After the battle, supporting troops asked the victorious North Carolinians: “Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?” and they replied: “No, not a bit; old Jeff’s bought it all up.” The supporting troops continued: “Is that so? What is he going to do with it?” The North Carolinian troops’ response: “He is going to put it on you’ns’ heels to make you stick better in the next fight.”
So. Fun stuff. 😛
In any case, my favorite thing about NC was the beautiful nature. From beaches to mountains to beautiful forest, waterfalls, and caves, NC has it all and I had a wonderful childhood exploring so much of it.
But moving on…I’ve been a Floridian for almost 6 years now. 4 years more and I can be considered an official Florida Cracker. (Which…has a history, as well, but basically it means someone who’s an honorary native, even though you weren’t born there.) PSA about Florida:
– It’s not all beaches, folks. In fact, the central strip of Florida is as old-fashioned-southern-rural as you can get. Florida has a large population of cows.
– It’s also not all palm trees. (Thank goodness.) We have quite a lot of pine trees and evergreens, as well as shrubbery and tropical flowers.
– We have a lot of water all over the state. If you look at a Google map of Florida, you’ll quickly find it’s littered with lakes. There’s standing water everywhere you turn, whether it be a drainage pond or swampland. Florida is very…wet.
– We’re officially in sub-tropic zone. That means the name Sunshine State means absolutely nothing from about May-October, when it we have tropical thunderstorms an average of once a day. Did I mention Florida is WET?
– We have a lot of water birds and not many “normal” songbirds, at least where I live. We get a few varieties of birds of prey (hawks and falcons and the like), and then as for the songbirds: a few cardinals, mourning doves, and the occasional robin or chickadee. That’s about it.
– That being said, we do have armadillos. Yes. Armadillos. I know this is not Texas, but still.
– We also have some coyotes, though those are much more rare.
– All this aside, my section of west-central Florida (that’s about halfway down, on the west coast) is very much like any other area in the south. It’s a city with suburbs and normal people living normal lives. No one goes to the beach every day, okay. Or even every weekend.
– A final note on weather: It varies, but in a “typical” year, my region has its coldest weather in January, with cool to cold nights and mornings (40s to 50s), and cool days (50s to 60s). January is usually when the leaves will do most of their dropping, on the trees that do such things. February is pretty much cool day and night, with the occasional cold night. Average temperature is 60s, with some low 70s, climbing to higher 70s towards the end of the month. This time of year (late February through mid-March) is spring, with the last bit of cool mornings (60s) and daytime mostly in the mid-to upper 70s. And then April is pretty much transition into summer, with 70s in the mornings and starting to hit 80s during the day. May through October is the rainy season with typical temperatures being 80s through low 90s (upper 80s and the 90s only being June-August). November is a repeat of April. December varies, but it’s usually most like February. Imagine wearing jeans and a t-shirt on Christmas day and decorating your yard full of palm trees with Christmas lights and you’ve got Florida Christmas.Anyway, I hope this is interesting to someone. 😛
Awesome! I usually forget ads even exist now, haha. Glad you like it!
I’m a bit late to the party, but I looked at the homepage, and I think the “get published” and “categories” especially are kind of buried at the bottom.
This is kind of unrelated to the original topic, but Sarah, have you tried using AdBlock? https://adblockplus.org/ My family uses it and it’s really helpful.
Absolutely, skin is skin. I’m thinking more along the lines of ethnical differences here.
Sounds like we’re all in agreement that the best way (and perhaps only good way) this works is if it’s actually a part of the concept. My question is, is there any reason we “should” intentionally work on developing stories of this type? Or should we just kind of keep it open as an option in case we happen to get an idea that goes with this?
I’m with you all–I think he has a point about diversity being realistic, but I don’t think it’s as simple as just shoving a bunch of different characters in there for the sake of it. A lot of it does depend on the story. Like Anna said, “If your story is set in China, most likely everyone will be Chinese.”
What do y’all think about intentionally trying to include different races and other groups of people in stories, though? Do you think that should be part of our brainstorming process? How could it tie into the story in such a way that it is affecting the story in some real way?
