Writer's Block: Back to School

[fajrdrako]

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In real life, High School was a prison I was only too happy to escape and never want to return to. But in fiction... it's a different story.

1. Hadleigh Heights in The Mrs Bradley Mysteries:, "Night At the Opera". Because the place was in the 1920s, an era I love. And because all the beautiful girls were either messing about with each other or with their music teacher, played by David Tennant. Okay by me.
   
   
2. The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning or Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in X-Men. I'd be mutant, and meet other interesting mutants, and my teachers would be cool people like Scott Summers, Emma Frost and Storm.

Comments

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>And because all the beautiful girls were either messing about with each other or with their music teacher, played by David Tennant.

Oh...cool! I watched that show before I "knew who David Tennant was". Cool! I'll watch again.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, he played Max Valentine, the art/music teacher suspected of the murder. I loved his style. Wanted to see something slashing him with George, but never got around to writing it.

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

Cool I have to check it out.

I've seen DVDs for that series at the ABC shop.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's fun. I'm a big fan of Diana Rigg, and I loved her chauffeur, George.

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

I like British mysteries.

At the moment the ABC are showing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. I like the idea of an elderly woman solving mysteries.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the Miss Marple novels much, but the TV show is rather fun. Not that I've seen more than bits of it.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

I can relate to that about high school. Even now, if I am feeling trapped in a situation, I often dream about high school, often with extra bonus cyclone fences and barbed wire.

The Xavier Institute is an excellent idea. I like the idea of St Trinian's, personally (I, er, quite like gym slips on other people), although more the book one than the movie one.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

if I am feeling trapped in a situation, I often dream about high school, often with extra bonus cyclone fences and barbed wire.

I can relate. Though I'm more likely to give it a twist of accomplishment-anxiety: the exam not studied for, being lost and unable to find a classroom I should be in, lost or forgotten assignments.... Ugh.

I never did those things, but I must have had a fear of doing them.

I like the idea of St Trinian's, personally

Yes!