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Alternate History?

July 24, 2014 by Deidra Alexander

What would you write.

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on July 24, 2014 at 12:46 am | Reply Joe Bradshaw

Many things that would with them would many smiles bring 🙂

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- on July 24, 2014 at 8:22 am | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  Lovely.
  
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on July 24, 2014 at 1:16 am | Reply laura iancu (@laura_iancu)

the truth

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- on July 24, 2014 at 8:22 am | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  Yes.
  
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on July 24, 2014 at 2:53 am | Reply deecrowseer

Sadly I don’t have the brains to write decent alternate history stuff, but I’d probably try to write something about hippies sweeping to power in the 70s and everything being much groovier in present day Britain. No Thatcher, no Blair… maybe John Lennon survives the assassination attempt and returns to England to rule, with George Harrison as his deputy? Hmmm… “A vege-curry in every pot, and a bike in every garage!”

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- on July 24, 2014 at 8:07 am | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  I love it. He was quite a philosopher.
  “Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.” John Lennon
  
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on July 24, 2014 at 9:34 am | Reply lemontreelifecoach

I also don’t have the brains to write alternate history stuff with real details…I don’t pay attention enough to the news because it freaks me out, and I have a terrible memory for historical facts and politics.
But the alternate history I would write is that love wins. We just wouldn’t fight and kill each other because we’d choose love every time. And there’d be no need to divide everything up and fight over it. Oh, also, in my history we would remain in the hunter/gatherer society… The agricultural revolution wouldn’t have happened… that was the start of having surplus and developing larger societies (unsustainable in the long run). Certainly the industrial revolution would be crossed off the historical map.
We’d have shorter lives, but they’d be real, connected to the products of our labor, to the earth, to our food, to joy, to sex. We’d work for 3 hours a day collecting our food and keeping the hut tidy. Then we would play and laugh for the rest of the day. A lot more laughter and play. A lot more connection with the people around us.

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- on July 24, 2014 at 4:23 pm | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  You inspire me. My alternate future would be 99% of all jobs would be automated. Just as we went from bartering to trading money, we would go to a new system of sharing through some kind of sharing system. We would no longer define ourselves by what we do. I wouldn’t be a typist, ditch digger, computer programmer or even a doctor. We would be defined by who we are. One day you might be a painter, the next a gardener, and the next a hiker. Those things would change. But you would remain the same.
  
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on July 24, 2014 at 10:02 am | Reply spill71

I would write:

NO SENSE IN HIDING,
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE BEHAVED
WHEN YOU THOUGHT NO ONE WAS LOOKING.
TIME IS UP NOW
TO COLLECT MY BONES AGAIN,
GATHER ME UP,
AND REINSTATE THE TRUTH-
MINUS YOU.

Thanks-that was fun, hope not too gorry 🙂

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- on July 24, 2014 at 4:12 pm | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  I LOVE gory. Every book I’ve tried writing someone’s going to die. Even if I didn’t plan it. It just happens.
  
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on July 24, 2014 at 4:39 pm | Reply simonreadbooks

I’d craft a series of events that resulted in my living on a tropical island with a lifetime supply of great wine and a decent English pub next door.

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- on July 25, 2014 at 4:26 pm | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  I’ll live on the other side of the pub and we could meet in the middle. Thanks, Simon.
  
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  - on July 26, 2014 at 12:58 am simonreadbooks
    
    Sounds like a plan. First round’s on me. Cheers . . .
    
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on July 26, 2014 at 6:36 pm | Reply Mindfulness blooming

I dunno what I’d write, but it would probably wind up being mysterious or magical or both…

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- on July 28, 2014 at 12:04 pm | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  I’m with you with death of course.
  
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  - on July 28, 2014 at 12:05 pm Mindfulness blooming
    
    Exactly!
    
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on July 30, 2014 at 12:33 pm | Reply The Southern "Fuddydud"

I would write how it would be to be born old and grow young!!

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- on July 31, 2014 at 10:34 am | Reply Deidra Alexander
  
  That’s an interesting premise. I love it!
  
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  - on July 31, 2014 at 11:49 am The Southern "Fuddydud"
    
    Of course the 1st problem you would face is you would be older than your parents….
    
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  - on August 1, 2014 at 2:52 pm Deidra Alexander
    
    Holy crap. I’d be my Mom’s Mom?!!?
    
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