h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I found H2G2 as well. I then decided to make my presence here as ViveAnn. I was told to greet you.

You are wondering about this place. Do not worry, you can add me as a contact.

Check out my journal entries to see what I am like. I hope to talk with you in the near future.

Dear ViveAnne

Thanks for contacting me. Lil says you may be of help by introducing me to other writers etc.

I have been chatting to Scandrea which has been fun - it is nice to have a pen pal in another country. Where are you? I am in England.
Its great that Americans are connected to us via the BBC (although it is, of course, the best broadcasting company in the world and I have seen a few of the others!)

Lil said you were primarily interested in Sci-Fi. I am sorry that I am not, although I am a great fan of Red Dwarf (the BBC Sitcom). Have you seen it?

Do you write Sci-fi? I write ordinary stuff about ordinary people which is what I know (always write what you know I was taught.) This is also what I like to read. Although I will read anything - fiction, biography etc. etc. anything I can get my hands on really.

Well, must dash - got to paint the kitchen.

Best wishes
CaroleHudson

True, I like Sci-Fi. But people in my Sci-Fi stories are like people of the here and now. Also, I am a HISTORY student and I believe that people in their feelings are unchanging. I, overall, believe that any place and theme of writing is inhabited by the same people.

Well, I am writing a Sci-Fi/historical drama/Fantasy story right now. I will be posting episodes of it (like a series in a magazine) on H2G2.

You can add me as contact if you wish.

I forgot to answer your other questions. I am absent-minded sometimes. LOL.

I am Canadian. I live in Canada. I currently go to university in the province of Ontario in the city of Sudbury. I attend Laurentian University. www.laurentian.ca

My name is Leiann Hill. I am mostly English (my surname is HILL), and I am fascinated with the British Isles! Where abouts do you live in the UK?

Did I forget to answer any thing else? Hmmmm, I do not know.

Well, I will ask you this: Why do you write? What stories do you tell?

Writers? Can I put you into contact with other writers? Ah, I do not know. I suggest that you broadcast yourself (establish a presence and simply write). An ACE has already found you because you made a spot for yourself in H2G2. So follow my suggestion and write so that other writers can spot you.

Dear ViveAnne,

Thanks for writing. Pleased to meet you. I live in Devon and at present my husband and I run a B & B which is great fun and I meet loads of people on whom I can draw for my characters.

I write about what I know, ordinary stuff, some set in England and some set in Zambia where we lived for 3 years in the 1970s. I have had a small success in the past couple of years - I won a short story competition in a national magazione here and this week they have published a second story of mine. In the 80s I had a story published in a local newspaper in Kent where we lived at the time. Not exactly JK Rowling I know, but we all have to start somewhere! Of course, I have not been trying that hard over the years - life, bringing up two kids and running a house and husband whilst working almost full-time, does not leave a lot of time for writing. I know... writers always say they haven't the time, don't they? But my recent success has made me want to try again so who knows.

Mind you, at present, I am painting the lounge so I had better go and get on with it.

Lovely to talk to you.

Best wishes - CaroleHudson -

The story that I got published (in the town news paper) was when I was in grade 5, and it was about Santa Claus. The news paper even misprinted my metaphor "His coat was a red as an apple" to be as "His coat was as red as an apply". Grrr! I saw the misprint and I then said that my story got misrepresented by that.

[I read over all that I write, so I was quick to notice the news paper's mistake!]

Only now am I again writing stories. I am writing stories to be posted on H2G2 and to also be published. I am 24, so the last time that I had a story published was when I was 11.

You said that you live in Dover? Well guess what? My English family, from which my surname HILL originates, comes from Dover! But though I have a major English background, I am also Irish, Scottish, French and Polish. But I view the English, Irish and Scottish as all part of the British Isles! So I say that I have a major British Isles family history.

You said that you've lived in Zambia? How come, and what was that like?

Dear ViveAnne,

Thanks for your message. I am glad you are writing again, 11 is very young to be published - must show promise.

No, I said I live in Devon, though when I lived in Kent we were fairly close to Dover. Devon is in the South West of England - almost down to the tip of the boot shape. I live in East Devon which is further up the "leg", right on the borders with Somerset and Dorset (English counties).

We went to Zambia in 1970 - my husband was seconded with the British Telephone Company as part of the British aid package to developing countries. Our children were 2 and 4 at the time. We had a great three years (though some of the food shortages were frustrating, but made me a resourceful cook. I worked part time as a secretary to a company which supplied mining equipment to the Copper Mines. We lived in Ndola which is on the Copperbelt. Copper, at that time was Zambia's biggest industry though the bottom has since dropped out of the market there. Now they seem to grow lots of exotic vegetables which turn up in our supermarkets in Britain.

Like most of souther africa though, Zambia is a very dangerous place to live now. At our B & B here in Devon we often get people from South Africa and Zimbabwe (mostly looking for houses in UK) so we hear about life there now. We would not go there now.

We had a wonderful time though - visiting Zimbabwe (it was Rhodesia then), Malawi and Kenya for some fantastic holidays. We spent a lot of time in the Game Parks (we would take long weekends) and saw all the animals - lion, hippo, elephant, leopard, giraffe, buffalo, rhino etc. etc. We have some brilliant memories and cine films to prove it.

Well, nice to chat - speak soon - keep writing
Carole H