I have two able-bodied (one a former gladiator) male characters operating a small farm. If it’s just the two of them working, how many acres (or iugera, if that’s an easier measurement) can they manage by themselves? They’re not particularly well off, but they can afford a goat and possibly some chickens. I’m also not sure whether they would be ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm hoping to find some more information so I can determine if it's viable for a fic. I found one article about cedars and their hazards in ranching, but the rest so far has just been advertisements, praising why grow cedar trees ( Read more... )

And it's all for the same story...

Setting: during and post WWII Britian

I am working on background for one of my main characters and I have something I want to see if it is plausible.

1. I would like his father to be RAF KIA, with a history of RAF service in the family though I know the RAF wasn't that old at that point. If his father had been in ( Read more... )

Hi. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a far future. The Amish of the time live raising hermetically enclosed biospheres, each consisting of several mini-biomes (such as prairie, rainforest, desert, coral atoll, etc.). After several years needed for a biosphere to mature, it is sold for installation in off-planet habitats to provide ( Read more... )

I am writing a story in which the main character ends up on a farm in the rural south of the United States. Being from Europe, I know very little of what the best places to set this story are, and I know very little of what the different places look like and such beyond what Google maps provides me with. Picking a random-ish place (I just got a new ( Read more... )

I partly have the problem of not having any idea what to search for the main question ( Read more... )

Setting: England, 1458 ( Read more... )

Sorry to post another question so soon after my last...but the reason I need to know the answer to this kind of stems from the answers I got to my last question here.  My setting is medieval Norway, specifically Gudbrandsdal, probably mid 1200s.  I've tried to do research online, and have actually spent months researching the subject in books.  I' ( Read more... )

I'm trying to draw a map for one of my fictional worlds ( Read more... )

I've had a plot bunny involving the interactions between two civilizations, one resembling the Holy Roman Empire, and one resembling the Khmer Empire. However, in the real world, the two civilizations never came into contact because they were too geographically separated. Therefore, in my fantasy world I'm moving the Germans to about where ( Read more... )