Categories: uncategorized
Tags: NaNoWriMo, History, Gender
Date: 20 September 2010 15:35:52
There are lots of things in my world that are not as i would like them to be. I also have an essay that is refusing to behave. I have therefore started to thinking about NaNoWriMo mainly as a way to distract myself. Due to various conversations I am thinking about how girls learn about role models and what role models we are given. I was fortunate growing up to have amongst others a great-aunt who thought it was important for women to have strong female role models from history. I was talking to a six year old girl today about WWI and about people from all over the world fighting, and her comment was "but not girls, only men". So I explained that mainly yes, but sometimes women fought to. I'm now letting the idea of women from history and how i'm going to make it in to a novel bouncy around in my brain.