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I started reading the second chapter. I haven't finished it yet, though.

So, you’re eighteen, right?

You could Google the slang of that time period. I always Google for particular ways of speaking when writing out a character from a time period I am unfamiliar with the slang of. I am aware that people from an era such as the middle ages never used contractions such as "don't" or "can't", so writing a character who comes from that time frame would not go around using such words, instead speaking out all words that the contraction was formed from. Aside from that, that time did use words that today are very rare to hear spoken and would likely need taking a look in the dictionary to find out the meaning of. That fascinates me.

I just read the linked page. To my advantage, the protagonists are only about four years younger than me. On the not-so-good side, in their version of ’real life,’ my protagonists are all pushing 50, hard. I don’t remember all the ‘slang’ from then, and I didn’t use it then. The site is a good one, though, and I’ll keep reading through it. The entire school-age ‘ensemble’ will be introduced by Chapter 17, and ‘revealed’ in Chapter 18.

I'm so over the moon! I've gotten my first review on Just Under the Surface! And it's a positive one, too!