I do believe ,also ,that if the great Lady Hampton were to wisk back into town , Scarlet would have a run for her money..lolol

As per your request, Scarlet's description:

Height- 5 foot 2 inches
Hair-Long black hair
Eyes-Ebony
Weight-115 pounds
Skin tone-Olive

-Very curvey in all the right places(if ya
know what I mean...ehemmm.)
-Very bright white smile
-She is as temperous as she is beautiful.
-The youngest of six children
-5 older brothers
-She is also highly into fashion
-Her mother died giving birth to her and so she was raised by her father and five brothers. This fact lends to the reasoning that she is a little rough around the edges : She swears, drinks, does heavy work if she thinks she can and... she always thinks that she can.

At any rate, as I've been doing my reading, I've been wondering about what date it is here in Virtual Hatrack. So far I know it's winter and a Saturday. Hatrack 18 *30s* , I know, but which year exactly is it?

That's all I was wondering for now. That, and where is everyone? hee hee

Time doesn't march onwards here, and the town isn't tied closely enough to history to notice particularly whether a certain event has happened yet or is about to happen. It's been generally up to the individual authors as to whether their characters age, grow-up, or even notice the passage of years that don't really affect the calendar in any way.

Maybe this means you can't make a meaningful reference to finding the new 1832 penny on the street, but there are plenty of benefits that more than make up the difference. For instance, if you decide that it's absolutely necessary for your story to discuss something that wasn't invented until the end of the decade -- go on ahead. Anything within those ten years is surely fair game.

Hope this helps!

Hatrack is a great place and a lot of fun but it is like anything else that involves creativity...it takes time and hard work. We all invested a good bit of time in creating our characters and interacting with each other. Writing is work and takes thought and planning...it's just that some of us enjoy doing the work and putting in the time and have the time. When we don't have the time, we may drift away into life until we fall into another pocket of time.

I have spent a month or more just reading the previous posts and trying to get the feel of the stories and characters. I know what you mean about there not being a lot of people in Hatrack but it shouldn't keep you from writing...to be corny...write and they will come.

TnyGtwd (Anthony Gatewood who is in living life, MABartlett. Anthony has a place on the outskirts of town. Right now he is helping some new neighbors to unload their wagons.

One thing I learned here, it ebbs and flows. If you post and don't get an answer too quickly, don't give up. Some folks like me don't even have a puter. I check in at least once a week, more if I can.

Hope you enjoy Hatrack!

(PS: I came here the same way)

For those of you commenting that it's a little slow, I can attest to the fact that it does ebb and flow. Mostly it depends on the stories. Write interesting stories and people will be logging in multiple times a day to try and jump into the action.

I haven't been here in a couple of years. At one point we wrote a story that included nearly the entire town and took several weeks of furious (busy, not mad) writing to bring to a conclusion. The bad guy was named Jack. Tinkerer was the balance to Jack. We ALMOST got kicked off the board, and the lovely Kathy Kidd had to intervene and direct us to wrap it up quickly.

Well, I'll stop telling stories that no one but me remembers. <foolish grin>

I've had a cast of charaters over the years
Rev Sinner Church
Father Eglise
dog

But Tinkerer was my first and so I think I'll ease back into Hatrack with him.

Have patience as I get back into the swing. Nice to meet all you.

The volume of writing back then was pretty intense although it did slack off in the summer if I recall.

Hope I can be around here it post a bit - but what happened to the Boathouse?

Take care, Capt. Hope you make it back...