And They Lived Not So Happily Ever After . . . Really?

I have for a number of years managed to have my academic life remain in one corner of my brain, while my creative life remain in another. Certainly my academic research has been fodder for my creative mind from the very beginning. Anything I learn, takes on a life of it’s own in my brain, but all in all it’s been very polite for quite a while. Until lately.

Corners of my brain fighting

Now I can’t seem to stop myself from venting my endless opinions. In my academic writing! Yes, much of the world of academia is opinions, but I do research. And, yes, some of my research does need opinions, but there is a certain way to format one’s opinions in an academic piece. Yet for the life of me, I can’t seem to do it anymore.

And here is where I slipped: I read through an educational website about women in the eighteenth century, although, it could relate to women in the nineteenth century too. It’s a well researched website that is interactive, which makes it a bit fun too. When I was done playing with the website, I was asked the question that seemed to turn off my academic mind completely. “What other kind of ending can you envision for an eighteenth century woman?”

So now, I’d like all my writing friends to complete the question at hand too. Please go to the website, http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_pro..., and play around, see what kind of ending you end up with, but more than that I would love to see just how many of you could write me a different scenario—perhaps a happy ending, please?

Leave as long as a comment as you want! Or just give me a quick note. Either way, maybe I could appease the creative side of me, and finally get my academic side of me back.

Oh, and by the way, perhaps why this bothers me so much is because in my historical release, The Immortal American, I did write my eighteenth century heroine a very different ending that what the website recommended. If you’d like to know more about my book (hopelessly plugging my book again—yeesh!) please go to Amazon.