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  • Re: I need to write a novel

    From hollowone@21:2/150 to Matthew Munson on Sat Apr 20 14:10:54 2024
    I was thinking of a novel where people meet each other during lunch
    during high school and also during after school and on the weekends on
    the bulletin board. It would be about youth finding themselves and fighting injustice in the era of 1995-1996. A period piece of historical fiction.

    No judgment here, just curious as high school theme being 45 seems way too abstract to memorize already... nor as any topic for write ups... but I'm no novel writer either so if I was about writing anything it would be impersonated somehow with me, where I belong today... intellectually.

    High schoolers problems is something that totally does not resonate with me.

    I know this is still something that neglects me in the role of a writer, unless that would be only one book... so my question is... how old are you if high school is the topic for a novel? Have you ever written anything like that before and it's a continuation or this is something that impersonates with you still today as a writing need?

    -h1

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to nugax on Sat Apr 20 14:13:27 2024
    My first modem was a 2400 baud. I thought it was flying watching
    lines of text scroll when I first called a BBS. Then I upgraded
    to a Zoom 14.4 and man was I flying! External Zoom. I was only
    13 so I didnt have the money for USR External, but thats what
    I always wanted!

    I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my first networking experience at home as teen. Man that was reasonably fast back then, until I learned the bill!

    -h1

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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Hollowone on Sat Apr 20 14:37:52 2024
    I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my
    first networking experience at home as teen. Man that
    was reasonably fast back then, until I learned the bill!

    When I got my 486, I got with it a USRobotics Sportster 14.4 modem and it was so great! I had been calling BBSes from the school using a 2400 baud modem, so finally getting my own modem and it was SO MUCH FASTER was really spectacular.

    When the phone bill came, my parents used to mark which calls were theirs and have me pay for the rest - it was quicker to add up the few calls they made on the telephone than to add up the many calls I made with the modem. I got a weekly/monthly allowance as a kid, until I got a modem, then it became payment toward that month's phone bill.


    Chris/akacastor


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  • From mary4@21:1/166 to hollowone on Sun Apr 21 09:27:30 2024
    I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my first networking experience at home as teen. Man that was reasonably fast back then,
    until I learned the bill!

    lol

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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Hollowone on Sat Apr 20 17:30:12 2024
    BY: hollowone (21:2/150)

    |11h|09> |10High schoolers problems is something that totally does not resonate with|07
    |11h|09> |10me.|07
    Sometimes people write for different audiences. Its a highly popular genre to write for 14-25 year olds.


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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to hollowone on Tue Apr 23 09:09:03 2024
    Re: Re: I need to write a novel
    By: hollowone to Matthew Munson on Sat Apr 20 2024 02:10 pm

    I know this is still something that neglects me in the role of a writer, unless that would be only one book... so my question is... how old are you if high school is the topic for a novel? Have you ever written anything like that before and it's a continuation or this is something that impersonates with you still today as a writing need?

    To be honest, having gone through high-school is all the qualification you need in order to exploit the subject. I left school many years ago and still managed to write a "school themed" short story people liked. It had also a sinister army of Death that bought orphans for their ranks, but that is a minor detail :-)


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