I've spent the last two days reading through some historical type books about flappers, the 1920s, and the mindset of the age. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz is the one that I've delved into most. It is exceptionally engaging for an analysis of history, but it is not particularly inspiring me, or really placing me in that time. It also focuses more on the famous people of the '20s, and isn't so much about the average women. In fact, there's nothing about a woman who works as a bank teller and has a psychotic boss set on summoning dark forces. So, thanks for nothing, Zeitz.
I should have taken Binary Kitten's advice and picked up a movie, or followed Ryan's lead and read a bunch of novels about my time period. This is a frustrating error to have made this late in the game, and I briefly toyed with throwing my outline out, and writing a Cyberpunk novel of some kind because, if there's one thing I know (PDF) it's Cyberpunk. But, I'm going to stick with my plan. For one thing, I have an outline, I have an imagination, and I can make this work.
More than anything, this is likely last minute jitters. Even though Zeitz couldn't tell me things that I could directly apply to my gal Dahl, I do have a much clearer picture of what the '20s were like, so that's not going to hurt.
I'm not planning on starting at midnight tonight, like Ryan is. I'm starting at 8:00 am tomorrow. I'll post throughout the week-end, so you'll be abreast of my work.
*snicker* abreast.
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I'll throw out my whole outline and book idea and do something improvised if you will.
Please don't.
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