Comments on: It’s National Novel Writing Month

By: FDR’s beloved Fala featured in really bad novel

FDR’s beloved Fala featured in really bad novel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:29:38 +0000

[...] the best case scenario, this dismal excerpt from a novel about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Scottish Terrier,… is satire. In the worst case scenario it’s just really bad [...]

By: thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:33:08 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about Fala Flash, I suppose I could add in a time travel element, but I think it sort of cheapens things.

By: Flash MacTavish

Flash MacTavish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18:24 +0000

Ok…just read some other postings here…you got me, along with just about everyone else who has replied to you.

Well done.

By: Flash MacTavish

Flash MacTavish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:12:49 +0000

Ok…I have no problem with alternative fiction, but let’s keep it plausible. If you are using historical figures then keep them in the proper timeframe. Just as a matter of interest FDR’s scottie Fala was not born until some 4 years after the 1936 Olympic.

By: thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:25:34 +0000

It’s called historical fiction. If you’re referring to FDR being able to run, you are only reading an excerpt and missed the montage where Hoover taught FDR how to walk again through his patentented training methods involving a game he invented called Hoover Ball.

By: Flash MacTavish

Flash MacTavish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:47:00 +0000

WTF? What colour is the sky in your world?

By: thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:25:30 +0000

Not at all. That’s all part of his plot to smoke out the Germans

By: steve

steve — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:14:11 +0000

Ummm, Nate? Does the fact that Owens endorsed Alf Landon and not FDR in the presidential election kind of give away the ending of your screenplay?