So basically I have nothing to blog about because I finished my project like 2 weeks ago so my teacher told me to blog about reflection stuff. In other words, I will attempt to supply you quite a lot of backstory in like 10 minutes because I need to go to bed and I have the ACT tomorrow morning.
Okay so last year as in sophomore year I decided I wanted to write a novel about WWI because it was pretty important to our history and is heavily overshadowed by WWII. I had a few friends talk with me about things I could do with it and they get a lot of credit for developing the story. I had done my history fair project on women's rights in the Great War so I knew a lot about a bunch of random stuff that no one else knew or cared about.
I decided to change that perspective.
Being relatively obsessed with Sherlock at the time (let's face it, I still am) I even named a character "Benedict" in honor of the great Cumberbatch. Regarding the story, I knew for sure I wanted to include the Hello Girls because they were really awesome. Due to plot twisting, I added the Red Cross in and the plot twist became part of the third major setting for Elsie. This third setting is the Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau.
In other words, I came up with the beginning of the story last year. Shortly thereafter, I began writing. Now this writing was not the same story as the one I just finished. I have since scratched and replotted what I previously had, for the sake of good story telling and the project. When my Lang teacher introduced this project and said it was about passion, I decided to tell a story about which I was passionate. I replotted and started anew, and let me tell you it has been worth it.
Research was a big, big part of this project. I got a fashion book for Christmas which allowed me to perfectly envision the styles (and social circumstances surrounding those styles) from the Edwardian and WWI era. I received multiple WWI books, giving me insight into the actual war and some of the notable people in it. A few of the people I've even included in the novel, such as Grace Banker, one of the number one Hello Girls, and Mata Hari, an infamous double agent that was executed in 1917. My former history teacher lent me a battle book so I could research uniforms and battles. I should probably return that to her sometime soon.
To sum up, this story has come a very long way from the little inkling of a thought germinating in my brain in the middle of sophomore year. I've since named it after a song from the WWI era, The Rose of No-Man's Land, which I think is appropriate for the story; assuming I publish it, you'll see why.
Anyway, that's my reflection. It took 20, rather than 10, minutes. I hope you're happy. Next week will be my last blog post for this project. By then, I'll have been working on my presentation for the class so I will have something more entertaining to share.
Thanks for reading.
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