NaNoWriMo 2011: "I thought *last* year was supposed to be the hardest!"

[readingredhead]

Maybe I'm an idiot for thinking that my first semester in one of the world's most competitive English PhD programs is not the time to be trying to write 50,000 words...but then I guess I'm an idiot because I have done this for SIX YEARS STRAIGHT now, and I'm not going to let this be the year that gets in the way.

I am also really, REALLY excited

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[octavius_x]

Theorists suspect that history -- the pressure of so many humans in one space -- somehow deforms spacetime in a way that makes it more susceptible to further deformation, so that impressions are tied to a specific place and stratified by the time when they were deposited

YEAH. Mind blurred out the rest after this. I WANT TO READ THIS ONE, BURNING PASSION FOR IT. Doing GRE study an am about to flip out because math is not going well.

[readingredhead]

GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO WRITE IT THEN. :D (Seriously though I am really excited about this idea so it is good to know someone else is too!)

Sorry for GRE studying un-fun but I promise you can do this shit. I mean, *I* survived somehow. Please imagine me fumbling through the math section and have a hearty chuckle at my expense. Then get back to studying.

Looking into the past

[w455up]

I feel one thing that might be pertinent is how people of the present react to the new technology, given that people of their future can now use it. The whole "looking into the past" deal was the main focus of "Light of Other Days" by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, so you might want to look it up. Perhaps it only hooks into specific timelines to get around this (turning up in the late 18th century in London, for example, and then having people argue over why the late 18th century was chosen as opposed to some other period).

Also, the ghost idea just makes me think of "The Spirit of '77" from Watchmen, which I just learned is based off "The Spirit of '76" while looking this up.

[ext_37496]

Sounds awesome, though I hope that the end of the last summary paragraph doesn't make the story tangle into an intractable knot near the end.

Synonyms for "ghost": "spectre", "spirit", "soul", "kami" (not particularly British, though). "Spectre" is the one that I keep feeling when reading your summary.