Accidentally Accurate

his week has quickly become an interesting and exciting week for my writing in that I am actually doing it! And quite a bit of it at that. But one of perhaps the most interesting points (at least to me) was the fact that I managed to write a scene that was accidentally completely historically accurate. Here’s what I mean. I was describing the architectural style in which a building was created and I happened to site a year, the architectural style was fairly random (it had just popped into my head) as had the year, but when I went to google it later (to ensure that it was in fact factually accurate), I found that it had started pretty much around the exact date I had chosen.

As a part of my studies in college, we are expected to learn about different artistic periods, from all factions of design, and the times in which said artistic periods were said to have started and ended. I was sure the information hadn’t stuck, and in fact were you to ask me when exactly an artistic period started I probably wouldn’t be able to give you an exact date, but I think on a subconscious level the information must have took somewhere. Ironically the vision for this particular architectural style in my mind and what it actually looks like were two different ideas entirely, but then I think I like it better.