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[helene ryles]

Hi Judith,
I've written the date in brackets. It's the late 20th centuary.

Helene

On 07/09/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
> I understand where you are coming from Helene, but your readers have to know
> what time frame they are reading in.  Lori is right.  Putting colquial (I
> know I misspelled it) are the late twentieth century or early twenty-first
> century.  If the story is being told in the future your reader should know
> this by hinting about it in the early part of your text.  Judith
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>> Hi Lori,
>> Thanks for correcting grammar.
>> In this world modern inventions (such as CI, trains, solar panelling)
>> etc run side by side with magical items such as (flying carpets,
>> seeker stones, firtility charms).
>>
>> That's just the way my world operates.
>>
>> Helene
>>
>> On 07/09/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
>>> Add a comma before your quote marks (presuming that's how they do it in
>>> England?).
>>> I'm thinking that a cochlear implant is a modern scientific invention
>>> (technological) but your story is magical.   Perhaps you could invent
>>> something
>>> that works similarly to the implant, but call it something else, and
>>> modify
>>> the way it works, so long as it is magical?   Otherwise, it's like giving
>>>
>>> a
>>> cell phone to one of the dragons, and feels out of place.
>>> Lori
>>> In a message dated 9/5/09 4:43:09 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Never mind Talmon, you could be dead by the time he gets to us"
>>>>
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