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RE: Revolution - A 5 Minute Freewrite
Hmm... the Archimedes screw was a thing since 3rd century B.C., so they may have. You'd be pretty "screwed" without one to move the water from a pond to your irrigation system lol. And then there are thumbscrews for torture. Wouldn't want to get screwed by those lol
I will admit, the language I use could definitely use some revision. The etymology of screwed as in to mean "in a bind" seems to originate from around the 1600's to 1700s. I'll definitely be keeping this in mind when I do larger works. I find that if I think too much doing these freewrites I end up getting bogged down in the details and editing while writing. Endlessly editing something that's not meant to be perfect lol.
Perhaps ‘screwed‘ is fitting but it sort of threw me for the time period. I was racking my brain to think what would be the colloquialism of that age-maybe ‘ruined’ or ‘destroyed?’
Hey Shakespeare, “What do thou thinkest dear bard?”😂
Shakepeare’s reply, “There is nothing either good or bad but thou thinking makes it so.”
As for the freewrites, I type out the story in five min. directly on my iPad and then go back to edit for grammatical errors and sentence structure without changing the content.
You raise a good question, redheadpei. I questioned Ken Lizzi on contemporary slang in his fantasy/historical novels, and he defends it. So do other authors. I got used to it after a while. This isn't historical fiction so much a fantasy, right, @worldbuilder? I think that's your "out." It's how things get done in this genre. And if video gaming factors in, it's all the more so. (BTW, I really do believe you'd enjoy "Thick As Thieves," my favorite Ken Lizzi novel.)
I love how you indicate the 5 minutes are up but you keep on going. And yes, some days, it feels so slow. Others, the story gallops away with us.
Well done!
Thanks Carol. I certainly didn’t want to be critical of @worldbuilder’s word usage as freewriting is to be fun and relaxed. When I saw the word ‘screwed’ I wanted to bring it to his attention about the the speech used during that time period to enhance his excellent knight story.
It's a good question!
I don't know the answer, either. I only know I've said the same thing to Ken Lizzi. His fantasy settings feel like medieval Europe. "Anything goes" these days, it seems. I don't know all the genres. Now VR, virtual reality, video gaming, is the newest, fastest-growing genre. I've never even played Pac Man. Or Dungeons of Dragons. #Late to the Party!!