Fun writing resource! This
site shows lingo that would have been in use in a given year. I want to have a diary within the next story I write -- passages from the diary of the character's great-grandmother. But what I'm going to attempt is a funny diary. A 1918 version of Georgia Nicholson.
Mind you, the language isn't much different from my grandmother's. Maybe I should just be hanging out playing bridge with her and her cronies. "Boy! Take a gander at that. I sure am keen on that." Hm. Needs more work.
Speaking of Georgia Nicholson, if you recall her little sister always invades her bed along with her posse. In this book, the posse consists of "Scuba Diving Barbie, Charlie Horse, a parsnip" and the cross-eyed kitten Gordy. The sister has also taken Georgia's statue of Jesus, put him in a frock, and is calling him Sandra--Barbie's best friend.
I'm on book 6 and haven't gotten tired of the series yet. Maybe because each book is short and only covers about half a year in Georgia's life, so it feels more like reading one long book. Or watching an episode of a tv show each week.
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
Speaking of Georgia Nicholson, if you recall her little sister always invades her bed along with her posse. In this book, the posse consists of "Scuba Diving Barbie, Charlie Horse, a parsnip" and the cross-eyed kitten Gordy. The sister has also taken Georgia's statue of Jesus, put him in a frock, and is calling him Sandra--Barbie's best friend.
