Apple Cider Vinegar

Over the weekend I watched the show Apple Cider Vinegar on UK Netflix. I was astonished at how this young woman Bella Gibson made people believe her lies.

I think it's because people want to be a celebrity and have praise. This is a part of the TV show that I think they should have shown more. 

Especially due to the other show called Adolescence about certain aspects of social media and peers that can affect how young men think.

Young women are more likely to feel they need to become a sexual object then be respected for who they are.

Picture found in Internet

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81637595?preventIntent=true

This also has an effect because young men then take advantage of young women and their insecurity.

What bothers me more is that the boyfriend stood by and let her do this and didn't speak up.

The meaning of the story is that these people that lie have people that enable them. Let them off the hook and ignore the real truth. Because of the monetary benefit it can bring.

With every invention that helps us can also be a hindrance used for improper means. That's why there needs to be more laws with social media and the internet.

But as with American politics, it is a tool that can be used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories. 

It takes writers and voices like ours to call out these inconsistencies or we will forever be in a place of misleading information that could make you poor or even kill you. #Snakeoil

The London Blitz

 

The Blitz 

I watched a YouTube video about an American who had never heard of The Blitz and it isn't taught in US schools.

September 1940

For 57 nights the Germans bombed London. This was in an 8 month campaign of bombing British towns. Britain was at a loss due to the amount of German aircraft. 

London's docks were on fire; they called it the Black Saturday.

The Germans started bombing on civilians.

History is a snapshot of time.

This was also a time when Britain didn't have eggs and had to have powdered eggs. I know this because I've seen one of the Ration booklets my grandparents had. I heard stories as a child of when my grandfather was in the British Army working in the mess Hall. Well in some cases it was a make shift tent.

This is why the UK understands the feelings of the Ukraine people. 

Children and adults from all over the world need to learn about the fear and mayhem that war causes. 

Just think about it! You are sending your children to a different part of the country, while war is going on. This is what parents had to do in this time of history. 

The sound of sirens of incoming bombing must have been the dread that a number of people didn't want to hear. Hiding in the Tube stations living with the fear your house could be next?

King George and Queen Elizabeth remained in London at Buckingham Palace. On September 13, 1940 Buckingham Palace took extensive damage to the chapel.

The then Princess Elizabeth (who would become Queen) and her sister Princess Margaret were evacuated to Windsor castle for safety. 

While these bombing were going on, people were still going on with their daily lives and going to work. 

Not far from where I live in the UK, the city of Coventry was bombed on the 14th of November 1940 the most severe bombing ever occurred.

Coventry received major structural damage but nothing was off limits for the Germans.

Hitting all major utilities electric, gas and water. This is why the British still use washing up bowls because water was scarce.

Having water was a necessity not just for tea but to put out fires.

In this time of crisis nothing will do but a good cup of tea! It makes everyone feel better. The same as Americans sitting at their dining tables to bring families and friends together.

Something as little as that to have each other's company in such a time of need and comfort.

Many of you have probably heard of the word Enigma.

“a person or thing that is a mysterious or difficult to understand” Oxford Dictionary 

Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered no defence measures should be taken against the Germans. They didn't suspect the Cypher had been broken, especially as officers work for a highly classified organisation called Ultra. A highly level encrypted radio and teleprinter at the GC & SE at Bletchley Park.

  

The Second World war was won because of the Enigma machine and the dedicated men and women of Bletchley park and our Prime Minister at the time. 

But something that should never be overlooked is a man named Alan Turing who was a mathematician and computer scientist, cryptanalyst. He had a doctorate degree from Princeton, he graduated from King's College Cambridge. He played a crucial role in cracking the German Cipher coded messages.

Alan was a very gifted man but he was treated differently. Alan was a gay man. He was charged for being gay and went to prison. He killed himself on the 7th of June 1954. 

He was later honored by the Queen and then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Due to his efforts during the second world war.

But what is forgotten is it doesn't really matter who we love, where we come from. What matters is we come together and we all united. 

But we must not let people assume or take freedom away from others because it could be your freedom that is next.

Writing A Story

 

Writing A Story

No matter what you write for TV, Film or Book writing needs to be let out on to the page.

Author Michael morpurgo on writing, he wrote War Horse. From a book to a film

https://youtu.be/QzAJ3oxYdy4?si=obYfyG2mKo6F7yxd

Life is sometimes not easy and throws you a Curveball. Sometimes and you have to go with it or not, that's the decision?

Writing nowadays is very similar and follows the same rules. But to be a writer you have to step out of your own box and have a good look around.

It may appear that some people have an easy life but we have different ways of thinking. Some people want to work a lot and make loads of money and do things that some of us wouldn't.

Some of us just want a life where we work to be comfortable, we pay our bills and are able to treat ourselves now and then.

We have to write from all different aspects of life: rich, poor, young, old. People that have disabilities and different sexual preferences.

Because in the end we are all still people!

Because this is who we are. As human beings we are curious about life, love and feelings.

But also our surroundings and what effects it has on us. 

Writing to some is difficult but it need not be. Write from experience and knowledge of your own circumstances. 

The trials and tribulations of everyday life put into words. The inner, most likely scenarios that life can take us down. The land of wonder, where everything along the path that is coming towards the character or characters to push the story forward. 

I would have to say I am a matter of fact writer. A writer that likes to write a beginning, a middle and an ending to the story. I think it's because I like to see how much a character has grown and gone through to where they end up at the end. 

I hate stories that leave the reader to imagine how the character ends up. Just tell us! Did they or didn't they? 

I think it goes back to my days as a young child reading Nancy Drew books and couldn't wait to find out who did it? It’s the mystery of who did it and why?

I think that is the question? Why? Why do we as humans do things? When we deep down know it might not work? Because of feelings. Hope, love, understanding.

To be a writer we have to write not just from the mind but the heart. The biggest mistake is someone misunderstanding good intentions. To assume what someone is before understanding their journey. 

How luck or tragedy Could change a person's life for good or bad. 

It's all in the details how one thing could lead to the next.  Let the story flow, it doesn't  matter how you write it or in what order? As Michael says the first draft just write don't  worry about mistakes, just get it on paper or on your computer.

Great writers like Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens etc didn't write from a certain act or structure, they just put pen to paper and wrote their story.

Happy writing!

Sara