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Challenge #411
Nov. 6th, 2024 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverToday's challenge is research!
Spend five minutes doing research on any historical time, and by "historical", I mean anything from before 1990. Note that you can research about anything from before 1990: a war, popular art or music styles, fashion, popular books or plays, the monarch on the throne, etc.
Now, spend five minutes writing a paragraph or two with your characters set in that time period that subtly clues the reader in on what the time period is without explicitly stating it. That means you could describe the passersby's solid yellow shift dress to hint they're in the late 60s, but you can't say "solid yellow 60s dress". You also can't have one character telling the other character when they are or lecturing them on what's going on (like the Doctor so frequently does).
The operant word here is "subtle". Imagine that your paragraphs are in the middle of a larger work, so it's already long-established what time period they're in, so you won't be explicitly stating it here.
Spend five minutes doing research on any historical time, and by "historical", I mean anything from before 1990. Note that you can research about anything from before 1990: a war, popular art or music styles, fashion, popular books or plays, the monarch on the throne, etc.
Now, spend five minutes writing a paragraph or two with your characters set in that time period that subtly clues the reader in on what the time period is without explicitly stating it. That means you could describe the passersby's solid yellow shift dress to hint they're in the late 60s, but you can't say "solid yellow 60s dress". You also can't have one character telling the other character when they are or lecturing them on what's going on (like the Doctor so frequently does).
The operant word here is "subtle". Imagine that your paragraphs are in the middle of a larger work, so it's already long-established what time period they're in, so you won't be explicitly stating it here.
