Okay, I have a quick writing question ...
Oct. 7th, 2010 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsos... and I wanted to write it down before I forget again, because I need to know it for my NaNo idea (it may involve making everything AU or going all alt-history or whatever). And I may research it later, but if anybody more knowledgeable than I can pipe up with the answer, I'd be more than grateful.
So -- and I should say before I get into this whole thing that this is an example, not the actual plot idea -- let's say that tonight you go out and have a beer or two. Then tomorrow, they outlaw liquor. I'm drawing a complete blank (and feeling like a bit of a dimwit in the process, because I know I know this) on what it is that keeps them from arresting you for the beer you had tonight, when the shiny new prohibition wasn't in effect.
That said, what would it take to get rid of the rule that says they can't arrest you for the beer you had tonight? So basically, they make this new prohibition, and because they've thrown out that rule, they can pretty much arrest anyone who's had a drink since, oh, 1933.
So -- and I should say before I get into this whole thing that this is an example, not the actual plot idea -- let's say that tonight you go out and have a beer or two. Then tomorrow, they outlaw liquor. I'm drawing a complete blank (and feeling like a bit of a dimwit in the process, because I know I know this) on what it is that keeps them from arresting you for the beer you had tonight, when the shiny new prohibition wasn't in effect.
That said, what would it take to get rid of the rule that says they can't arrest you for the beer you had tonight? So basically, they make this new prohibition, and because they've thrown out that rule, they can pretty much arrest anyone who's had a drink since, oh, 1933.
