Request for Ideas

[mythicat]

The first installment may be ready by the end of the week...but no promises!

Cool!

One question for you, though...since the main character is someone whose knowledge during her life is pretty much restricted to her immediate surroundings...i.e., she doesn't really know what is hapening in the world...do you think that her memoirs should be more of a "I didn't know it at the time, but x was happening in the world, and had y impact on my life; all I knew was what the end result on me was" or should it be more along the lines of, "due to the results of the Great Depression, Daddy needed money, so he sold me."

Short answer? The latter. Because the other way says the same thing, only with a lot more words.
Since you're writing erotica with a historical angle rather than historical fiction with an erotic angle, you want to keep the historical parts streamlined.

In other words, should the memoirs be written based on what this now-literate woman now knows was happening in the world as she grew up, or should she only use inferences that the men were discussing financial problems, that there was talk of "Japs" and "Krauts" and a war going on "over there?"

I appreciate your input.

Spike brought up a good point about this. What exactly would this woman's literacy level be? You say she's now literate, but just how good of a writer would she be considering her life experiences. Perhaps she should be telling this story orally to someone.

Or perhaps we should just hush up and thank the nice writer for his smutty story.