Please! Don't ever do this!
I find it really hard to work backwards to find out how old a person should be or even if they were born at that time. I'm currently trying to slot in a woman who should be older than one character but not so old as to be alive at the same time as another, and how old her grand-daughter might be. It sounds simple but it's not, trust me.
Saw this on Twitter too.
Is the world at least 50% terrible? I don't think so. I hang on to my faith that most people are good. In recent years that faith has taken a bit of a beating so maybe it's the last lines I should be concentrating on.
"You could make this place beautiful."
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Sorry, Liz. I'm one of those cretins who figure out ages, dates of birth, etc. It helps me visualize the people.
I used to puzzle about miss Marple's age, where she's a Victorian from a cathedral close, an ambulance driver in WW1, a fluffy old lady in the 30s, wearing indoor mittens (late19th century genteel fashion), then late middle age after WW2, then still active but arthritic in the 50s. I decided nobody knew, and her speech and thought were identical throughout, so I surrendered. She could have been anything from 100 down!
They can have time continuity problems like that in movies too. I've noticed several improbabilities in various films.
Tip for authors : make a spreadsheet e.g. in a detective story, of who knew what when.
Something that I have never thought about.
I never even thought about something like that. I bet that would be difficult.
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