Request for Ideas

[Dododecapod]

There's also the question of possible escape, whether she wishes to, is encouraged to, and what happens when/if she attempts it.

Is her society pro-slavery or is it an underground subculture? Do attitudes change over the period involved? You mention an anti-slavery girlfriend for a major character; is she the aberration or the rule?

Is she trained to A) Accept, B) Enjoy or C) Despise her status? Does she have mandated rights (as the Romans did for slaves) or is she considered an animal (as most of the slave states of the Old South operated things)?

Remember, you're not just creating the characters, but the entire world.

[Mobius]

escape to were. She does not exist, she is with out papers. No birth cirtificate no SSI card no history. She is a null a non person. Even if she did escape it would be very difacoult to establish her self. So she clings to the only world she knows. one that gives her structure and support.
Just passed from one master to another until she is used up and made into spam. I always wonderd what was in spam. "soylent green is people"

[mythicat]

She wasn't actually sold into slavery until age 16 according to the original post. So she would probably have a birth certificate at the very least.

"Remember, Tuesday is soylent green day."

[Rocky]

Actually, she was born to it...it was her father (who may not have actually been the one who sired her...if you can figure that one out...I'm not sure how to describe it here) who, what I've written so far, owns a farm in Kansas, but really makes his income in the slave trade, circa 1920. She is a slave from birth, but lives with her "birth family" until the age of 16, when she is first sold to a young married couple.

As to my question regarding whether she should be speaking as if she doesn't know what is going on in the world at the time, or based on what she knows now, it will probably be a little of both.

I've tried to put myself in this person's life, as it were. It's a first-person account, and I believe I need to really BE her while I'm writing (no easy task, since I'm a dominant male), sort of like an actor preparing for a role. The first segment is somewhat disjointed, but intentionally so. She is writing her memoirs, and thinking back to her earliest memories. She skips around a lot, as things start coming back to her. Later segments will be more chronological oriented. So far, I have the beginning and end, and some of the middle written. I may be uploading the first segment as early as today.

Please, take a look and let me know what you think. Not set on a title yet, but probably something along the lines of Memoirs of a Slave Girl.

[mythicat]

Keep us posted.

[Rocky]

Uploaded Part 1 yesterday, Part 2 just a bit ago. Hopefully, it'll be available in the next few days.

I have the ending written...now I just have to figure out what's going to happen between 1950 and 2004!

[mythicat]

Will keep an eye peeled for it! (eww)