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Post by scdaffron on Mar 10, 2014 10:33:58 GMT -5
I haven't posted much of anything on my blog since our server went belly up a few months ago and I had to rebuild everything. (Oh the horror...) And then I got deeply involved in the first draft of my WIP, so no little bloggie posts for me then either. Now that the draft is done, I finally wrote a post. (Egad!) In it, I discuss why I set my book in 1995, which as one reviewer noted is a rather "generic" period of time. I explain why sometimes, generic isn't necessarily all bad  www.susandaffron.com/why-1995/ |
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Post by vrabinec on Mar 10, 2014 10:50:49 GMT -5
Good post. The I-phone has really changed society. Writing a book set in the days before we all had them is akin to going back to the dark ages for turn of the century writers.
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Post by scdaffron on Mar 10, 2014 11:06:21 GMT -5
Good post. The I-phone has really changed society. Writing a book set in the days before we all had them is akin to going back to the dark ages for turn of the century writers. Very true. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 15:00:33 GMT -5
I haven't posted much of anything on my blog since our server went belly up a few months ago and I had to rebuild everything. (Oh the horror...) And then I got deeply involved in the first draft of my WIP, so no little bloggie posts for me then either. Now that the draft is done, I finally wrote a post. (Egad!) In it, I discuss why I set my book in 1995, which as one reviewer noted is a rather "generic" period of time. I explain why sometimes, generic isn't necessarily all bad www.susandaffron.com/why-1995/Ah! I was sort of wondering about that Windows 95 t-shirt holding up for so long.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 15:04:44 GMT -5
Ah, that was a trip down memory lane, Susan. You and I must be about the same age (I was born in 1970).
But I am going to quibble on the fashion thing. The '90s are forever associated with grunge, for me. All those flannel shirts and boys with greasy, unkempt hair ...
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Post by scdaffron on Mar 10, 2014 15:15:36 GMT -5
I can report that my husband is RIGHT this second wearing a t-shirt from 1994 or 1995. We got it at Jimbo's, which was and maybe still is a health food store in San Diego. However, with that said, in this case the Windows 95 t-shirt was brand new IMO, grunge was not fashion. It was just people too lazy to wash. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 15:27:10 GMT -5
I can report that my husband is RIGHT this second wearing a t-shirt from 1994 or 1995. We got it at Jimbo's, which was and maybe still is a health food store in San Diego. However, with that said, in this case the Windows 95 t-shirt was brand new IMO, grunge was not fashion. It was just people too lazy to wash. LOL! Yeah, still have a skirt I bought in high school. It is dry-clean only, though. Those things tend to last longer.  |
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Post by Daniel on Mar 10, 2014 16:01:27 GMT -5
Ah, that was a trip down memory lane, Susan. You and I must be about the same age (I was born in 1970). But I am going to quibble on the fashion thing. The '90s are forever associated with grunge, for me. All those flannel shirts and boys with greasy, unkempt hair ... 1970? You are about the same age as my "baby sister," who was born in 1969. I was inflicted upon my mother in 1961. |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 10, 2014 16:18:15 GMT -5
Great post! I liked the before-cellphones-days too.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 16:26:20 GMT -5
Ah, that was a trip down memory lane, Susan. You and I must be about the same age (I was born in 1970). But I am going to quibble on the fashion thing. The '90s are forever associated with grunge, for me. All those flannel shirts and boys with greasy, unkempt hair ... 1970? You are about the same age as my "baby sister," who was born in 1969. I was inflicted upon my mother in 1961. Ah ... we're all about the same generation. Funny how long ago the '60s and '70s are starting to feel, isn't it? |
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Post by Daniel on Mar 10, 2014 16:48:18 GMT -5
1970? You are about the same age as my "baby sister," who was born in 1969. I was inflicted upon my mother in 1961. Ah ... we're all about the same generation. Funny how long ago the '60s and '70s are starting to feel, isn't it? I'm not sure "funny" is the word I'd choose, but I know what you mean. What gets me is thinking about how different the life experience must be for people who have grown up with all this technology surrounding them and very little contact with nature. When I was little, touch-tone phones were new. Television was this giant wooden console in the corner of the living room with a fairly small picture. Music was huge, fragile, vinyl disks. Nobody "downloaded" anything. Entertainment was balancing your bike on that old log that fell across the stream and watching tadpoles swim at the edge of a pond. I'm not saying my childhood was better, I'm just saying I wouldn't trade it. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 17:59:20 GMT -5
Ah ... we're all about the same generation. Funny how long ago the '60s and '70s are starting to feel, isn't it? I'm not sure "funny" is the word I'd choose, but I know what you mean. What gets me is thinking about how different the life experience must be for people who have grown up with all this technology surrounding them and very little contact with nature. When I was little, touch-tone phones were new. Television was this giant wooden console in the corner of the living room with a fairly small picture. Music was huge, fragile, vinyl disks. Nobody "downloaded" anything. Entertainment was balancing your bike on that old log that fell across the stream and watching tadpoles swim at the edge of a pond. I'm not saying my childhood was better, I'm just saying I wouldn't trade it. Yeah, it's hard to imagine what it's like, now. I'm in a profession where I continuously have contact with young adults, and they seem much the same as my generation did in college. Dunno ... there may be deeper difference underlying the superficial similarity. Hook-up culture might be a bigger change than the tech, come to think of it. No one in college seems to be looking for someone to actually "date." Can't remember the last time I saw a couple on campus holding hands. |
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Post by Daniel on Mar 10, 2014 18:29:21 GMT -5
Hook-up culture might be a bigger change than the tech, come to think of it. No one in college seems to be looking for someone to actually "date." Can't remember the last time I saw a couple on campus holding hands. Every single response that entered my brain when I read this made me realize I'm a dinosaur already. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 18:52:46 GMT -5
Hook-up culture might be a bigger change than the tech, come to think of it. No one in college seems to be looking for someone to actually "date." Can't remember the last time I saw a couple on campus holding hands. Every single response that entered my brain when I read this made me realize I'm a dinosaur already. Heh, heh, heh. And yet they're still weirdly prudeish about sex. Give them a racy Shakespeare sonnet, and it's all shocked silence and staring at desktops. |
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Post by scdaffron on Mar 10, 2014 20:14:18 GMT -5
>>Can't remember the last time I saw a couple on campus holding hands.<<
What are they doing? Pretending not to know each other? I'm definitely a dinosaur. Sigh.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 10, 2014 20:19:14 GMT -5
>>Can't remember the last time I saw a couple on campus holding hands.<< What are they doing? Pretending not to know each other? I'm definitely a dinosaur. Sigh. I'm not sure. The ones who're hooking up are having sex with people they may not even consider friends. But that must not appeal to a good number of them. What those folks do, I don't know. |
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Post by scdaffron on May 3, 2014 10:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by Becca Mills on May 3, 2014 11:00:33 GMT -5
OMG, that's funny! The looks on their doggy faces ... so put upon!  I remember washing my golden retriever. He was very big, and he hated baths, even though he loved swimming. Eventually I gave up on it and just let the vet's office do it. They had a wash stall for big dogs, like the ones barns have for horses! |
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Post by Daniel on May 3, 2014 11:36:30 GMT -5
Immortalized doggie anger.
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Post by scdaffron on May 3, 2014 12:16:12 GMT -5
Yeah, there's not much joy on bath day.
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