I could not have pulled this off without you. Thank you SO much for your encouragement and suggestions, on IM and in the final draft! I seriously was at the point where I hated the whole thing and was ready to throw it out, and you helped turn that around. ♥ ♥ ♥
When I set up this universe last year, I knew what I wanted the political situation to look like in 2015, and I based it on events that I planned to happen between February and May 2011. Not all that backstory made it into last year's story, but I'd outlined it roughly in order to figure out where the dividing lines were, what the order of breakaway and the reasons were. I did some very cursory reading (as I tend to be relatively unaware of news in general, politics in particular) to try and fit it into what was actually going on, so it was semi-believable. So to hear that it's timely and apparently perceptive is a) lovely from a writer POV, and b) a little disconcerting! :)
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Date: 2011-07-11 09:29 am (UTC)When I set up this universe last year, I knew what I wanted the political situation to look like in 2015, and I based it on events that I planned to happen between February and May 2011. Not all that backstory made it into last year's story, but I'd outlined it roughly in order to figure out where the dividing lines were, what the order of breakaway and the reasons were. I did some very cursory reading (as I tend to be relatively unaware of news in general, politics in particular) to try and fit it into what was actually going on, so it was semi-believable. So to hear that it's timely and apparently perceptive is a) lovely from a writer POV, and b) a little disconcerting! :)