Where did the week go?

Nov 05, 2010 21:15

I turn around, and it's Friday already ( Read more... )

nanowrimo, clockwork dragon

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musicmutt November 6 2010, 02:31:30 UTC
"Where did the week go?"

They took it to little factory just outside Mississauga where they ground it up to make mattress stuffing.

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wyld_dandelyon November 6 2010, 03:16:49 UTC
Oh, gosh, I hope not! My week was not restful. It would make a very poor mattress.

But hey--hello! It's good to see you here.

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dormouse_in_tea November 6 2010, 04:37:00 UTC
I approve of these tags. :D

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tigertoy November 6 2010, 14:29:52 UTC
+1

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wyld_dandelyon November 6 2010, 17:05:39 UTC
Now to start properly accumulating word count!

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wyld_dandelyon November 6 2010, 17:10:03 UTC
(-:

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tigertoy November 6 2010, 14:48:44 UTC
Wow, no fossil fuels? I didn't remember, from what I heard you read at Cap, it being that different a world -- though I don't think you went into much explanation of the technological and economic basis of the world, I took it for more steampunk -- so no common use of liquid petroleum-based transportation fuels, but having coal based industry, so you have trains, factories in a location without water (or really good wind) power, and steel.

If your Chicago is a big city, it has to be a transport hub, which presumably means linking Great Lakes shipping to the inland rivers and the canal systems (which were just getting going when they were supplanted by railroads).

I could chat about this sort of world building background stuff for a long time, but I gotta run now, and if you're trying to NaNoWriMo you probably don't want to spend a huge amount of time on this now, especially for a world that you already know in your own head...

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wyld_dandelyon November 6 2010, 17:04:38 UTC
Actually, stopping to think about the worldbuilding stuff is the main thing that's slowing me down! That's why I started this thread inviting people to, in effect, brainstorm with me ( ... )

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tigertoy November 7 2010, 01:00:23 UTC
If they don't have fossil fuels or an electric grid, but they do have urban life, they really need a good light source. So, perhaps they have some sort of sufficiently advanced technology that turns mechanical energy directly into visible light? Wind-up lights don't start fires, so if they've had a material for a long time that glows if you twist/pound/stir/whatever it instead of getting hot, they could well have refined it to the point of not needing fire for light ( ... )

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wyld_dandelyon November 7 2010, 18:46:46 UTC
Oh, this world had cities--and big ones--before electricity or gas light. So I wonder why you think they need a really good light source.

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