Worldbuilding: Wills and Ways

Tontine. From Lorenzo Tonti, a late 1600s Italian banker in Paris who invented it; a financial arrangement

Story Seed: Feed the Deer

Sometimes if you’re tired or under the weather, your brain comes up with ideas you really don’t have the time or motivation to write. Or at least not to invest the research you’d need

Pensacola Bridge Update: I Am Bemused

First, the facts as we know them.

On September 16, 2020 Skanska USA Civil Southeast Inc., failed to secure no less than 22 out of 55 barges

Worldbuilding Rough Update: Wood Be Good

Biggest. Research paper. Ever.

Currently about 2/3 of the way through the third draft of putting together and

Manga Review: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation

A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, by Misaki, art by Momochi and Sando. 5 for 5 stars; very slice-of-life isekai with a light touch on character interaction.

This manga takes an interesting twist on the isekai genre.

Earring Tales: Crocus Crotalus

I was aiming for purple mist. Did not get it.

Some Storm Damage

This is all small-scale stuff; I’d rather not be out on the roads to take pics of the big stuff. But yeah, the backyard shows some of what Sally left.

Worldbuilding: Getting Around

How do your characters get from point A to point B?

In part this will depend on time period;

Book Review: GURPS Atlantis

5 out of 5 stars. This is 128 pages of fact, history, speculation, multiple worldbuilding scenarios, and bibliography. Yes, a reasonably extensive bibliography in a game supplement.

Book Review: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline. 4.5 out of 5 stars; an interesting overview of the end of the Late Bronze Age. Almost worth it just for the social network diagrams created from the Amarna Letters