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[Judith Bron]

Helene, Then the implants work.  The word centuary should be century.  JB
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From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
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> 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
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
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>> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:38 PM
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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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