Dear internet, clearly this is important.

[vorindi]

3rdragon and I are writing a story in which several people (from now-ish) end up in 1928. I'm trying to decide what they know about the time period.

So, internet, what are the first few things you think of when you think of the 1920s? (Our intrepid time-travelers do not have internet access, so please don't google for information first.)

Comments

[3rdragon]

New Trenham, Connecticut, USA.

You would recognize some of the characters, too. We had this flash of insight that life would be SO MUCH EASIER if we stopped trying to research/make up stuff about a psuedo-UK, and just made stuff up about a psuedo-US, instead.

Mind you, we still don't know anything about the 1920's. Or at least, we didn't a week ago. I can now tell you how much it costs to rent a room for a week at the YMCA in 1928, or buy a man's straw hat.

[vorindi]

We did think of that--(not so much the publishing in specific, but that your Trenham was yours)--we started with someplace that shared a lot of placenames but probably not that much else with your Trenham, planning to change these things before showing it to anyone, and it's rather diverged since (and not solely because we realized that we know more about the US).

But, you know, it has all the characters we made for trenham_rp in it, so the tag seemed as appropriate as anything, in case someone for some reason needs to find this post again.

And good luck with publishing! Or revising or querying or whatever stage of the process you're at! (Because clearly exclamation points are helpful.)

[3rdragon]

My real problem with many of the neighborhood names is that they sound like names of neighborhoods in not-Oxford, rather than names of neighborhoods in the US somewhere.

And yes, good luck.

[vorindi]

Ooh, I could go to the library and get some Agatha Christie books. Because clearly that would be research . . . and probably more entertaining than the random YA history book I read the other evening.