NEW BOOK IDEA BASED OFF OF REAL EVENTS, Project name “letters across time.” look up “bbc micro LW letters.”
so you’ve got this protagonist who has a computer right? Everyday Joe Schmoe/Plane Jane? Well one day on their computer they leave a blank word document open while they leave/got to bed, and when they get back there’s this poem written on the document. Now when they examine their house to make sure no one has broken in, (they find nothing) they examine the poem and show it to. A history buff friend, who finds out it’s written in accurate sixteenth century English. Thinking this is odd, and wondering if they could get another letter or poem, they write out questions for the mystery poem writer, asking what year it is for them, what their life is like, who’s the current leader of the country, etc. and they leave the computer alone before they go to bed. When they check the computer again they find the letter has been replaced with a response, all answers to the questions are historically accurate and the writer is extremely confused about how a letter from the supposed distant future found its way to them. The longer the two correspond the more research is done using the responses. Near the house of the protagonist they find buried material matching that which the correspondent says their home is made of. Then when the person from the past (hensforth will be rknown as the “pastagonist”) asks about the protagonist’s time, they’re confused, because their friend says it’s the year 2109? That’s when they get a new letter from said future individual.
The story could go anywhere by this point, but it’s such a cool concept I had to share!
