Nick 2E0NAQ’s Comments (group member since Sep 26, 2011)

Nick 2E0NAQ’s comments from the The Role of History in the Making of Stories: A chat and Q&A with authors Andrew Williams and Aly Monroe group.

Aly wrote: "Hi Nick
It's great to have you in the group - and to hear that you're progressing with your book. Go ahead and adapt things you have have found!Not just the big things, but the small details. It w..."

Hi Aly,

Yes, I am enjoying doing the research for my story, as I am interested in the local history of World War 2. I think the reason I am enjoying the research is that I can still see some of the things from the war and it is helping me to try to imagine what it was like in wartime in this area. A mate that works with me has lent me a book called Life on The Home Front and he has given me a wartime recipe that I can have one of the young boy’s mum making. Another member of the museum where I work has written a book of some of the other member’s wartime child hood memories. I got a copy so I can find out what it was like going to school doing the War.

I have kept the place names the same, I did try to change the names, but I was finding it hard to keep track of where I was with the story.

Trying to research for this book has made me wish that I could of read a lot better at school.

Hi Aly and Andrew,

This is a very interesting group, as I have not that long ago got interested in writing myself.
I have just started writing a story about three boys that are growing up in World War 2, I have made it easier, and I have based it around the area where I live.
I have been buying books on Wartime Lowestoft to help me with my research for my book. I am writing to ask if it is OK to adapt anything that I have researched to use in my story. I am not using the dates that things happened.
I hope that I have explained things clearly.