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If you could send a note back in time and give your younger self just two words of advice, what would you say?
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Brenda, where have you been?Off thread, I know, but have you seen your dedication?
Just wondering, #3 as I recall:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Oh, how nice of you, Howard! I am deep in a novel at the moment, having written nearly 40,000 words in 30 days. I have no time for ANYTHING else until I hit a wall or it is done.
Brenda, understood.Get back to work & all hopes for a happy completion.
Let us know & is it Time Travel?
If so, my note might say, "More Brenda."
I like ¨Buy Apple¨ that Brenda suggested. I actually wrote a short story with this premise where a hundred year old man talks to his younger self on the phone. Spoiler alter, it is not kind to liberals.
[url=http://fiddlingant.blogspot.com/2013/...] I Phoned My 100 Year Old Future Self [/url]
Don,We still want to hear your own two word entry. Think of it as a very short story.
Garrett muses for a 'very short story' & that's something I like, given my recent history.Therefore, I will reduce the Bible into two words:
'Adam had'em.'
How about one "word"? :)01000010011101010111100100100000010010010100111101001101010001110010000000110000001101100010111100110001001110010011100100110100001000000111010001101111001000000011000000110110001011110011000100111001001110010011011000101100001000000010010000110001001000000111010001101111001000000010010000110001001101010011000000001010
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Howard wrote: "Brenda, understood.Get back to work & all hopes for a happy completion.
Let us know & is it Time Travel?
If so, my note might say, "More Brenda.""
I wrote a time-travel trilogy last year, and thank God! They are done. This book may be the first non-SF I have ever written. It is Victorian melodrama.
Randy, the comments on that page are the best part.And, to be caught in a Loop, did you see your dedication?
#10, as I recall:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Brenda speaks of 'melodrama'Brenda, wonderful, I'd enjoy your take.
For mine, see #4 as it meets my definition.
Maybe exceeds.
Wear a seat belt, as I said.
Believe in yourself, have confidence in your own abilities and give it all you have. Then you won't have to use the words "if only I had ......".
I tried to send a message to the younger ME but the TIME COPS intercepted my message and threatened to kill me (the Older-Me, I think).@hg47
"Buy oracle" may be even better than "buy Apple" I just read it went up over 8,000% from 1992 to 2012."For a possible game changer, how about "kill bin-Ladin" or "no WMDs"
No, there were powerful forces that were going to get us into the sinkhole of Iraq whether there were WMDs or not. Bin-L was on the kill list long before 9-11 -- they were not not looking for him, in other words.
If you could send a note back in time and give your younger self just two words of advice, what would you say?Trust yourself!
Amy, see #1.'Read more books' is 3 words, not 2.
If you don't believe me just ask your daughter, she'd know.
She's redheaded.
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'Read more books' is 3 words, not 2.
Read morebooks.
Amy #29:Closer.
But an excellent try.
Reallyit is.
But, tell the truth now, if you received a 2-word message like any of these, wouldn't you just discard it?There was a Hulu original series where a young woman gets romantic advice from herself ten years in the future via text messages:
http://www.hulu.com/dating-rules-from...
Amy, It'sthethoughtthat counts.Howard, I've given up on keeping this a two-word thread. I guess readers are just wordy people. And folks that love Time Travel seems to have a problem following rules. Go figure.
Randy, I just hope that if I had received a message when I was young that read 'Marry Michael' I would have waited and married the Michael I am actually married to, and didn't rush to marry the first Michael I fancied. My Michael is the best husband and friend I could ever hope to have.
So, folks, tell us in as many words as you'd like.....
If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would you say?
Garrett wrote: "If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would you say?"I loved the ST:TNG episode where Picard got to go back in time and undo an incident he had participated in during his academy days, which caused him to need an artificial heart.
As a result, he ended up being a completely different person. One that he did not like.
Garrett, I guess 3 sentences are better than 2 words, good luck in the new experiment in Round Robin Time Travel writing, I hope your numbers work:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
As Amy gave us the first such endeavor (which inspired my newest book) & Amy has a daughter & that daughter is a redhead & much discussion of this fact has been made on various other threads, I came up with the following idea:
I'll send a signed copy of my new collection of Time Traveling short stories to the 1st person (among those who have already posted to this thread) to correctly identify how many times 'redheaded women' are referenced on the Time Traveling Bus video found at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGE...
And my new two words are:
More redheads.
I would say "enjoy life as you don't know how long it will last!"I know the younger me would take no notice anyway...
If I got a message from myself, I'd wake up and smell the coffee. Or I'd think I was crazy. But I wouldn't just ignore the message.
Garrett wrote: "If I got a message from myself, I'd wake up and smell the coffee. Or I'd think I was crazy. But I wouldn't just ignore the message."If it's just a 2-word message, how could you possibly know it's from yourself?
Suppose you reach into your pocket and find a scrap of paper you know wasn't there a minute ago. You open it and it says:
"Run! Now!"
What do you do? :)
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"Run! Now!"
What do you do?..."
My husband always jokes that I'd fail that type of test. My answer to "duck" is always "why?". If it were from me, I'd have to have included a reason like: "Run. Bees."
Wouldn't that be a funny prank? Putting "Duck now" or "Run now" or "There's somebody behind you" slips of papers in library books or pants on store hangers or something. It wouldn't be instant gratification, but it would be kind of funny anyhow. After all, you'd probably get in trouble if you tried putting them in random people's pockets if the pockets were actual in use on a person's body.
Amy,I think you just came up with an idea for a great screen play. A library checkout-desk worker slips short messages into books, then imagines what will happen.
One day she opens the paper and reads that one of library patrons took the advice in the note and................
Now what would be funny and unexpected right there?
Garrett wrote: "I think you just came up with an idea for a great screen play. A library checkout-desk worker slips short messages into books, then imagines what will happen."I'd rather it be that the messages actually meant something.
Ever see the Twilight Zone episode, What you Need, where a street peddler sells things to people that turn out to be "just what they need" a short time later?
Loved that one.
P.S. Available on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/440784
Randy, that's is a perfect improvement on the idea!
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I think you just came up with an idea for a great screen play. A library checkout-desk worker slips short messages into books, then imagines what will happen.
One day she opens the paper an..."
P.S. They're still accepting screen plays for Heller Shorts through the end of the month with the theme "Take the Fifth". That would make an interesting twist as you'd have to plead the fifth on causing the accident. http://www.greenroomok.com/event/766
There have been any number of time travel stories where the time traveler trying to prevent an event ends up being integral to causing the event.
I think they call it a predestination paradox...
Amy, We loved the idea of the Heller Shorts script contest. It's a fun idea, but tougher on close inspection than it first appears. The challenge is to get a complete story across in 15 minutes of less with only two tables and four chairs as props.
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We loved the idea of the Heller Shorts script contest. It's a fun idea, but tougher on close inspection than it first appears. The challenge is to get a complete story across in 15 minutes o..."
Yeah. And the formatting alone would take some time. One of my co-workers enters every year and has been featured twice. I thought I might enter this year, but I haven't found an idea for the theme. Maybe next year. :)
Amy,How exciting. Keep brainstorming on those ideas. You will come up with one.
