#WordWeavers Apr 1 - Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

April Fool's Day may or may not have begun in the Middle Ages, but probably after the 13th century if it did, so no, it does not appear in my writing.

#WordWeavers 1. Your opinion on April fools day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

If there's going to be pranks and jokes, I'd at least like them to be clever and funny. Major points deducted if the ones pranked don't feel like laughing along.

Can't really think of a time I've referenced it in fiction, tho.

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1. Your opinion on April fools day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

Honestly, I just find it irritating these days. Mainly because the bulk of online April Fools pranks take place either late in the day or even on April 2nd, for us.

And, no. Nothing like it appears in my work.
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#WordWeavers Apr 1 - Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

It's mentioned in every chapter of every book I ever wrote.

1. Your opinion on April fools day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

I enjoy good-natured and clever jokes. But no, I haven't incorporated them into any story yet. Hm...

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#WordWeavers Apr 1: Your opinion on April fools day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

Today's a good day to take any press releases or news headlines with a grain of salt. This is true for any other day as well, for that matter.

#WordWeavers April 1: Your opinion on April fools day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

My general patience for April Fools Day ... incidents weighs how fun I think the thing was vs. the probable level of psychic harm caused. The ThinkGeek fake products were generally pretty great and, even if you forgot what day it was, the probability of those products existing was pretty proportional to the likelihood they would actual make them later on. For example, my ex bought me pixel glasses that were, if I recall correctly, originally an April Fool.

In contrast, whether done by a company or on a more individual level, almost everything else done as an April Fool seems to be cruel on some level.

I don't know if I would bother writing a prank into a story that way.

#WordWeavers Apr 1 - Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

I would maybe use it in a very narrow context if writing about the actual period in history that it began, but other than that ...not bothered.

We also have a thing in my neck of the woods where you're not meant to play a prank after midday ...so I can usually miss it by just sleeping in. 🙂

#WordWeavers Your opinion on April Fool's Day and do you incorporate it in your work?

I think given the current climate of lies and nonsense, April Fool's is even more of an annoyance than it usually is. At my old company they would make up a fake news story for that day but it was always exceedingly lame. I find that's the issue - most of the things are so stupid and unfunny.

It may turn up in a future Xanadu book as it's the sort of annoying thing that fits that universe, but IRL? Nah,

#WordWeavers 4/1: "Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?"

I don't like April Fool's Day, and it does not play any role in my work.