Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-4893169-20151013235142/@comment-4893169-20151202053321

Thank you so much Raidra for the detailed and thought-provoking critique. I got everything that you mentioned that needed fixing taken care off. This work went through at least three revision where Anne was the villain, but then I decided that would be too Disney ugly-equaling-bad stereotype and went with the beauty-goodness-hides-an-ugly-and evil-interior idea that is more realistic.

I wasn't so much influenced by classic episode of The Twilight Zone--Eye of the Beholder episode rather more Brave New World, Gattica with the genetic inferiors getting to be menial laborers, also the social customs of Jane Austen's Regency Period where the lower servants worked out of sight and out of mind.

I also had to do a lot of research on pirates as well, what they wore and what they're living conditions were, and how would they react if they encountered a ship from a sophisticated, higher-level culture (well, they would try to capture it, of course...just like some of the South Sea Islanders who had the propensity for stealing anything made of iron that wasn't nailed down, and would even murder the crew and steal the ship).

They actually did have a Pirate Code>Pirate Code wiki, although I'm sure they weren't always strict about following it.

I'm trying not be influenced by Disney