WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a letter to a friend, from the perspective of someone living 100 years in the future.
What commonplace things might they mention that would surprise a reader now, and how can you use these to drive an interesting narrative?
To Daisy
*the year is 2007* Why hello my friend, you might be wondering why I am writing, funny story actually, I am writing to you from the future, 1000 years to be exact, before you freak out, there are some things I need you to know, so I am able to sleep easy, knowing you won’t fall for these horrible tricks in your world at this time.
First of all, there is this weird thing, I think it is called, tikitok? Well this will all become clear in about 10 years, maybe a little more. See this thing is like a mind prob, the inventor, he is out for information, I can’t tell you why quite yet, not even we know, but he wants every last drop of information. About you! So stay clear and make sure to never download this strange app, it has frankly disturbing things on it, though it didn’t seem so when is starts out, just funny videos of people dancing.
Anyway that is not as important as what I will tell you next, you have to listen to me on this one, even if you don’t know or trust who I am, or why I am writing to you.
The world is dying, slowly but surly, I am also positive you have already heard of this, though not to the extent that it will get to in the future, there will be no more wild life, no more animals, the air so full with smoke that we will have to evacuate and come to this planet Flankiol, which we are on now.
These are the two main points I need to stress to you to make sure your are aware of. One of which will dum you down if you use it, killing of your mind, the other will kill off our planet. I do not say this Daisy to make you scared, but to make you aware, and to let you know anything that seems too good to be true, is, and that all that seems nice in the moment will cause you erepitable damage via pollution in the future. I also hope that in some way shape of form this might be able to help you stop all this before it gets to this point on Earth, as Flankiol is also not a permanent home for the humans, we will have to move again in another 3,000 years and repeat this process until we have run out of planets to travel to.
I hope this find you well, and this helps you in some way.
Your guardian and friend,
Josephine.