I've been pulling together the information on 'The Watchers' in the Worlds Apart series so that future references to them can be consistent. I remembered that there were more verses in the Riddle of the Fie, that Grando relates to Bella, than I ended up having in the final version of the first book. While more verses were interesting to me, they slowed the story down for no real payoff so I cut them out.
For anyone who's interested here is the full list of verses, the additional verses are in italics:
Came the host upon our shore,
with lance of light declared they war,
inner bright at once destroyed,
cast adrift in darkened void.
Came the host upon the sky,
Storm of clouds drawing nigh,
Sere the coast with falling fire,
billowing clouds rise ever higher.
Came the host upon the mount,
Numbering beyond our count,
Rent the peaks, blinding eyes,
Fill the ether with their lies.
Came the host upon the sea,
Wave of death no time to flee,
Wall of fire, wall of foam,
Nothing left of hearth and home.
Came the host upon our land,
Blackened earth and glassy sand,
Trees of fire and fields of ash,
Dreams of life gone in a flash.
Came the host ‘pon Watcher’s seat,
with mighty fire they did defeat,
as winked out, the Watcher’s eye,
the host was felled from the sky.
--
A.I. Marin
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Sunday, 6 December 2015
NaNoWriMo Final Results
NaNoWriMo finished on Monday the 30th of November and I managed a total of 85,066 words on my official word count. I'm pleased with the results of my first time participating, however I believe I can do more words next time.
The plan I had for a story when I started only covered about the first 10k words I'd written. By the end of the first day (7k) I already knew I was in trouble. I had no clear direction to keep writing in. On the second day I spent some time planning and my word count was low but I ended up with enough of a plan to reach over the 50k mark.
Once I hit the goal of 50k on November 15th I relaxed and took it much easier from there. The story I wrote played out just under the 60k words. Rather than go back and add padding that would just slow the story down I worked on book three of the Worlds Apart series and counted those words in my total. It may not be totally legit but I wanted to see how many words I could reach.
I think I should be able to hit 100k if I have a plan for a story that runs to that length and if I keep pushing for the whole thirty days. That's my goal for next year, have a story plan long enough and push for the whole month to try and hit 100k. As a supplementary goal I hope to hit the 50k before day 15 to beat the mark I set this year.
Onward to NaNoWriMo 2016!
A.I. Marin.
The plan I had for a story when I started only covered about the first 10k words I'd written. By the end of the first day (7k) I already knew I was in trouble. I had no clear direction to keep writing in. On the second day I spent some time planning and my word count was low but I ended up with enough of a plan to reach over the 50k mark.
Once I hit the goal of 50k on November 15th I relaxed and took it much easier from there. The story I wrote played out just under the 60k words. Rather than go back and add padding that would just slow the story down I worked on book three of the Worlds Apart series and counted those words in my total. It may not be totally legit but I wanted to see how many words I could reach.
I think I should be able to hit 100k if I have a plan for a story that runs to that length and if I keep pushing for the whole thirty days. That's my goal for next year, have a story plan long enough and push for the whole month to try and hit 100k. As a supplementary goal I hope to hit the 50k before day 15 to beat the mark I set this year.
Onward to NaNoWriMo 2016!
A.I. Marin.
Sunday, 15 November 2015
NaNoWriMo Success
I achieved 50k words earlier today. I'm very happy with my success so I guess I want to share some of what I've learnt while writing 50k words in 15 days.
When I started, I wanted to go for the pantser badge which is to write without any planning. however I found that I can write a lot faster and more effectively with planning. Not exhaustive planning but simple point form notes about the story and characters.
I've been trying Scrivener for this NaNoWriMo and I've found that I love it. It works very well with my process or at least the process I have for writing fast for Nano. I've also been using the Scapple note taking / roughing out tool for writers, made by the same people who make Scrivener. I find that it also works very well for the way that I think and write. With these two pieces of software and an appropriate set of rough notes on where to take my story I've been able to be more productive than I ever thought I could.
I've found much to my surprise that I can write up to four and a half thousand words after work. That is a volume I just didn't think I could achieve. Now that I know I can achieve more I'm hoping to be more productive in general. Before anyone asks, no I don't get any kickbacks from this software or anything for endorsing them, I've just found they work exceptionally well for me. End. Of. Story.
Here's to more writing ahead but also more planning to make it happen easier and faster.
A.I. Marin.
Links:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php
When I started, I wanted to go for the pantser badge which is to write without any planning. however I found that I can write a lot faster and more effectively with planning. Not exhaustive planning but simple point form notes about the story and characters.
I've been trying Scrivener for this NaNoWriMo and I've found that I love it. It works very well with my process or at least the process I have for writing fast for Nano. I've also been using the Scapple note taking / roughing out tool for writers, made by the same people who make Scrivener. I find that it also works very well for the way that I think and write. With these two pieces of software and an appropriate set of rough notes on where to take my story I've been able to be more productive than I ever thought I could.
I've found much to my surprise that I can write up to four and a half thousand words after work. That is a volume I just didn't think I could achieve. Now that I know I can achieve more I'm hoping to be more productive in general. Before anyone asks, no I don't get any kickbacks from this software or anything for endorsing them, I've just found they work exceptionally well for me. End. Of. Story.
Here's to more writing ahead but also more planning to make it happen easier and faster.
A.I. Marin.
Links:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php
Thursday, 12 November 2015
NaNoWriMo Update
It's nearly two weeks into NaNoWriMo and my word count is going well. As of last night (day 11) i was at 35,567 which is a little short of twice the target of 18,333. I'm going to try and catch up to twice the target over the weekend. Overall I'm confident I'll reach 50k by the end of November. I'm actually hoping to reach 80k for a first draft.
I'm writing what i originally intended to be science fiction with an urban fantasy twist but the story has ended up being more like urban fantasy than anything based on science. So for now I'm going to label it Urban Fantasy i might try to bring back more of the science flavour into the story during editing.
For those that are interested, the working title is "Dimensional Parasites". I'm not sure I like it so the title may well change later. The synopsis I listed on the NaNoWriMo site is below.
I'm writing what i originally intended to be science fiction with an urban fantasy twist but the story has ended up being more like urban fantasy than anything based on science. So for now I'm going to label it Urban Fantasy i might try to bring back more of the science flavour into the story during editing.
For those that are interested, the working title is "Dimensional Parasites". I'm not sure I like it so the title may well change later. The synopsis I listed on the NaNoWriMo site is below.
An accident at a particle accelerator puts physicist Devon Moore in hospital. He wakes up with only partial memories of the accident and a strange woman sitting in his hospital room. She asks what he remembers and offers a warning, someone might come to kill him. She flees when hospital staff enter the room to see to their patient.A.I. Marin.
Another stranger tries to kill him by tearing him apart but a flash of light intervenes and Devon wakes up in the park outside the hospital in his paper gown and no memory of how he got there. Weak and bleeding he waits on a park bench for his killer to find him again. Instead he is found by a woman in leather and more piercings than a punk rock band. With little choice but to accept the only help that's being offered, Devon climbs on the back of her motorbike.
A small group of conspirators fill him in on what is trying to kill him and how they think he survived. Physicists like Devon believe that string theory unites everything we know about the universe in a mathematical model with eleven dimensions. The accident at the particle accelerator has pushed Devon into the other dimensions, he can see into them and be seen by whatever already lives there. Devon has become a D-Walker of unknown abilities. The parasites from the other dimensions are after him because they sense his powers. Life has changed and this is only the beginning. Devon must survive the parasites and learn to defend himself while a more insidious threat stalks him.
Sunday, 1 November 2015
1st of November, starting NaNoWriMo
It's 8am on Sunday morning the 1st of November. I'm about to start my NaNoWriMo attempt.
I've decided to give Scrivener a go as my writing and editing tool (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.php). I've been using MS Word for many years, so I'm kind of curious about other editors and Scrivener is designed with authors in mind. I'm about to start the Interactive tutorial, an investment in time I'm sure will pay off. The better you know your tools, the more you can focus on the task not the tools.
Here goes!
A.I. Marin
I've decided to give Scrivener a go as my writing and editing tool (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.php). I've been using MS Word for many years, so I'm kind of curious about other editors and Scrivener is designed with authors in mind. I'm about to start the Interactive tutorial, an investment in time I'm sure will pay off. The better you know your tools, the more you can focus on the task not the tools.
Here goes!
A.I. Marin
Sunday, 25 October 2015
NaNoWriMo 2015
Ive signed up for NaNoWriMo for the first time. This November I'll be writing something new from scratch. Doing something new rules out working on book III of the Worlds Apart series, because I already have over 60 thousand words for that.
I've decided to do lighthearted science fiction / Urban Fantasy. More details later but I'm excited to make a start on November 1st.
After November I'll be working on Book III - When Worlds Collide, until I get it finished.
A.I. Marin.
I've decided to do lighthearted science fiction / Urban Fantasy. More details later but I'm excited to make a start on November 1st.
After November I'll be working on Book III - When Worlds Collide, until I get it finished.
A.I. Marin.
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Book II - The Weight of the World
Just a quick note to say that Book II of the Worlds Apart Series is out. To celebrate Book I is free Thursday to Saturday 24th October.
Book I - A World of Difference, available on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/pmlzev6
Book II - The Weight of the World, available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nnuqjxg
Book III: When Worlds Collide is in progress.
A.I.Marin.
Book I - A World of Difference, available on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/pmlzev6
Book II - The Weight of the World, available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nnuqjxg
Book III: When Worlds Collide is in progress.
A.I.Marin.
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
History Matters: Food Productivity
One of the things I've been trying to pin down is the relationship between food productivity and civilization. I've been reading around the subject a lot an I feel that there is a strong relationship but it's hard to actually quantify.
Ancient Rome had the advantage of fertile, easy to work soils and their food productivity was good for the times. Aqueducts to provide irrigation, crop rotation and water mills all added to the Roman productivity. As they expanded they captured slaves who became the main workers of the farms but when that expansion came to a stop they could not maintain a slave workforce large enough to feed the empire and had to motivate workers to tend the land with freedom and improved conditions. Food prices increased, the economy failed, there was no money to pay the army and Rome fell, a process that took centuries to eventuate but at its heart food productivity and inflation caused by devaluing the coinage were factors in the fall. While this is a gross simplification of the fall or the Roman Empire, I do believe there is a relationship between the food productivity and the civilisation it was able to support.
In the subsequent middle ages in medieval Europe Mediterranean farming practices inherited from the fallen empire yielded poor results in the heavier wetter soil of northern Europe. Food productivity was low and the feudal system was the resultant civilisation, where each manor, castle or ward fed itself and there was none left over to trade. Travel was limited, wealth was mostly measured in livestock and land and the institution of serfdom arose.
In the late middle ages improvements in ploughs and the breeding of large draft horses (as a side effect of breeding large warhorses) that could pull the new heavy ploughs led to increased food productivity. This increase in productivity was also helped by the medieval warm period (900-1300) which was a largely European phenomenon not global warming and was not as warm as the last fifty years have been.
Surplus food led to towns with markets where the surplus could be traded and the rise of trade and monetary wealth. Towns promoted trade and brought the benefits of technological advancements from other parts of the world to Europe. From this grew the seeds of the Renaissance period. Could the Renaissance have happened without the improvements in productivity that created surplus food so that a class of artisans and inventors could live and work in the expanding towns and cities? Probably not but improvements in food productivity alone was unlikely to be the only factor leading to the Renaissance. It may have been one of the important enablers though.
This is the thread of logic and events that I am pursuing to try and pin down the relationship that I feel is there. Most of my research so far has been centered around Europe. I want to also look at Asia and the Americas and the relationship that civilisation has with food productivity in those cultures as well. That will be a blog for another day.
A.I. Marin.
References:
Ferguson, W.K. (1962). Europe in Transition 1300-1520. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Heaton, H. (1948). Economic History of Europe, Revised Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers.
Christ, K. (1984). The Romans. Berkeley. University of California Press.
Butler, C. (2007) Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe. At http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/10/FC63
Diaz, Henry F.; Hughes, M. (1994). The Medieval warm period. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bradley, R.S. (2003). Climate of the Last Millennium. Climate System Research Center.
Backer, P. Part 1 – Medieval European history. History of Technology. San Jose State University. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
Newman, Paul B. (2001). Daily Life in the Middle Ages. McFarland. pp. 88–89.
Janick, Jules (2008). Islamic Influences on Western Agriculture. Purdue University.
Bartlett, B. (2005). How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome.
Ancient Rome had the advantage of fertile, easy to work soils and their food productivity was good for the times. Aqueducts to provide irrigation, crop rotation and water mills all added to the Roman productivity. As they expanded they captured slaves who became the main workers of the farms but when that expansion came to a stop they could not maintain a slave workforce large enough to feed the empire and had to motivate workers to tend the land with freedom and improved conditions. Food prices increased, the economy failed, there was no money to pay the army and Rome fell, a process that took centuries to eventuate but at its heart food productivity and inflation caused by devaluing the coinage were factors in the fall. While this is a gross simplification of the fall or the Roman Empire, I do believe there is a relationship between the food productivity and the civilisation it was able to support.
In the subsequent middle ages in medieval Europe Mediterranean farming practices inherited from the fallen empire yielded poor results in the heavier wetter soil of northern Europe. Food productivity was low and the feudal system was the resultant civilisation, where each manor, castle or ward fed itself and there was none left over to trade. Travel was limited, wealth was mostly measured in livestock and land and the institution of serfdom arose.
In the late middle ages improvements in ploughs and the breeding of large draft horses (as a side effect of breeding large warhorses) that could pull the new heavy ploughs led to increased food productivity. This increase in productivity was also helped by the medieval warm period (900-1300) which was a largely European phenomenon not global warming and was not as warm as the last fifty years have been.
Surplus food led to towns with markets where the surplus could be traded and the rise of trade and monetary wealth. Towns promoted trade and brought the benefits of technological advancements from other parts of the world to Europe. From this grew the seeds of the Renaissance period. Could the Renaissance have happened without the improvements in productivity that created surplus food so that a class of artisans and inventors could live and work in the expanding towns and cities? Probably not but improvements in food productivity alone was unlikely to be the only factor leading to the Renaissance. It may have been one of the important enablers though.
This is the thread of logic and events that I am pursuing to try and pin down the relationship that I feel is there. Most of my research so far has been centered around Europe. I want to also look at Asia and the Americas and the relationship that civilisation has with food productivity in those cultures as well. That will be a blog for another day.
A.I. Marin.
References:
Ferguson, W.K. (1962). Europe in Transition 1300-1520. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Heaton, H. (1948). Economic History of Europe, Revised Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers.
Christ, K. (1984). The Romans. Berkeley. University of California Press.
Butler, C. (2007) Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe. At http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/10/FC63
Diaz, Henry F.; Hughes, M. (1994). The Medieval warm period. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bradley, R.S. (2003). Climate of the Last Millennium. Climate System Research Center.
Backer, P. Part 1 – Medieval European history. History of Technology. San Jose State University. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
Newman, Paul B. (2001). Daily Life in the Middle Ages. McFarland. pp. 88–89.
Janick, Jules (2008). Islamic Influences on Western Agriculture. Purdue University.
Bartlett, B. (2005). How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome.
Friday, 27 February 2015
Science Matters: Introduction
To a science fiction writer science obviously matters. It is both a source of ideas and essential background to plot and character. I have a degree in applied science (chemical engineering) but I still have to do a significant amount of research to develop my ideas about how a piece of technology could work or already does work.
In this series of posts I want to share some of the research about science, technology and society that I do for my writing. I can't promise there wont be some of my own ideas in here (although they will be labelled as such) or the occasional rants about anti-science and other stupidity but mostly it will be real science and tech.
Next week I want to talk about fusion technology. A staple of many futuristic science fiction stories either as the central feature or as necessary background technology but what is possible and what is likely in the near and longer term future of fusion power?
A.I.Marin.
In this series of posts I want to share some of the research about science, technology and society that I do for my writing. I can't promise there wont be some of my own ideas in here (although they will be labelled as such) or the occasional rants about anti-science and other stupidity but mostly it will be real science and tech.
Next week I want to talk about fusion technology. A staple of many futuristic science fiction stories either as the central feature or as necessary background technology but what is possible and what is likely in the near and longer term future of fusion power?
A.I.Marin.
Monday, 23 February 2015
History Matters: Introduction
I write science fiction although there are probably elements of fantasy in there as well. I try to ground my story in plausible science. So why do I look at history?
The past informs the present and the present informs the future. Some trends in society and technology can only be understood when looking at a long time frame. So to project into the future requires a look at history. There's also that rather famous saying that has been paraphrased countless times by countless others:
History offers insights into a few compelling aspects of society:
A.I.Marin.
The past informs the present and the present informs the future. Some trends in society and technology can only be understood when looking at a long time frame. So to project into the future requires a look at history. There's also that rather famous saying that has been paraphrased countless times by countless others:
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
George Santayana (1905) Reason in Common Sense, p. 284, volume 1 of The Life of Reason
History offers insights into a few compelling aspects of society:
- Social trends, changes in social norms can both influence and be influenced by technology, conflict and the environment. For any story about 'people' the social environment they live in is likely to be an important part of the story or essential background to it.
- Technology trends sometimes take a long time to show their true nature. For example the history of agriculture has had an impact on what kind of civilization the food production can support and on global warming, a trend that will impact our future for centuries to come.
- Warfare, while the technology of war has changed and will continue to change, the tactics and strategy that made a difference centuries ago are still relevant. Sun Tzu wrote about 500BC and his "Art of War" is still considered relevant for today's military leaders, political leaders and even business leaders.
A.I.Marin.
Monday, 9 February 2015
Map of the Kingdom
This is the working map I have been using to write my books.
There are several issues with it. The first thing you'll notice is that it's not complete. Most of the cities are not named yet and not all the roads are drawn in. The most important part of the map for the first novel is the Mountain Province and it's more complete than the other regions. I was generally filling in the details as I needed them for the book.
The second problem is that the map is of the modern 'altitude' contours type. It looks pretty enough but it limits the narrative freedom to have a high mountain where the story needs it to be or rugged hills where they need to be or hidden valleys. It limits narrative freedom, full stop.
The map was generated with software that used fractal algorithms to create 'realistic' looking global maps. Then I used other software to convert the image into vector form so that I could use a vector art package to add the cities, names and other details. I prefer to do this with vectors because the writing and other features can be scaled more freely up or down.
I'm working on a new version of the map but it's not ready to show yet. It's only a background thing I do when I need a break from writing.
A.I.Marin
There are several issues with it. The first thing you'll notice is that it's not complete. Most of the cities are not named yet and not all the roads are drawn in. The most important part of the map for the first novel is the Mountain Province and it's more complete than the other regions. I was generally filling in the details as I needed them for the book.
The second problem is that the map is of the modern 'altitude' contours type. It looks pretty enough but it limits the narrative freedom to have a high mountain where the story needs it to be or rugged hills where they need to be or hidden valleys. It limits narrative freedom, full stop.
The map was generated with software that used fractal algorithms to create 'realistic' looking global maps. Then I used other software to convert the image into vector form so that I could use a vector art package to add the cities, names and other details. I prefer to do this with vectors because the writing and other features can be scaled more freely up or down.
I'm working on a new version of the map but it's not ready to show yet. It's only a background thing I do when I need a break from writing.
A.I.Marin
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Servants and the pecking order
So writing about servants in a medieval sort of society is hard. I keep wanting to bring what I know about being a paid employee in modern times into it. I'm fairly sure that the life of a servant in a manor or castle was significantly different to my experience.
So research, yeah.
The thing I discovered almost immediately was the that society I was imagining in my SciFi/Fantasy world was more like a renaissance one than a real medieval one. That's actually good news, it frees me from slavishly following medieval practices. The society I've imagined plays out in detail like a movie in my head but its not exactly the same as any historic period on Earth.
The second thing I discovered quickly is that servants were not treated anywhere near as well as I thought they might be. Nowhere near as well as I'd imagined. So again, my world is not like history but I did have to change what I was writing to make the servants life less comfortable.
Finally and terrifyingly, women were treated even worse than I had imagined. In medieval times women had no rights, at all! Wives were not partners in life, they were slaves, often taken by force from enemies or bought for money. I wanted to paint a picture of a society where women don't have anything like the equality I'm used to (as flawed as it is), so that I can draw a contrast with modern society and point out its flaws but medieval society was terrifyingly worse than even my most horrific imaginings. So again my world is different to that, I don't want to portray life for women as bad as it actually was in medieval Europe.
The pecking order, it's human nature to want to know where you stand with those around you. so confrontations to sort out the pecking order are inevitable. In medieval society servants fell into two distinct classes. The sons of people of influence/nobles doing effectively an apprenticeship as a servant. They made contacts and learned important skills until they could establish their own household. The others were women and serfs, in both cases effectively slaves paid almost nothing and expected to act with complete obedience.
So in my world I'm going for something of a hybrid model of the servant/master relationship. Two classes of servants, the noble brats and the commoners. However the commoners are paid a little in addition to room and board and basic clothes supplied. They also have some common law rights. Common law started in England in the later part of the medieval period. So my world is something like late middle ages with a touch of renaissance and a touch of SciFi/fantasy.
Some links to things I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_household
http://www.ancientfortresses.org/medieval-castle-life.htm
http://mail.islux.lu/librarylinks/Medieval+3rd+grade/Servants.htm
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher/373/guilds.htm
http://www.eelkat.com/MedievalServants.html
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40275569?sid=21105789168813&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3737536
http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/
...and many others.
A.I.Marin.
So research, yeah.
The thing I discovered almost immediately was the that society I was imagining in my SciFi/Fantasy world was more like a renaissance one than a real medieval one. That's actually good news, it frees me from slavishly following medieval practices. The society I've imagined plays out in detail like a movie in my head but its not exactly the same as any historic period on Earth.
The second thing I discovered quickly is that servants were not treated anywhere near as well as I thought they might be. Nowhere near as well as I'd imagined. So again, my world is not like history but I did have to change what I was writing to make the servants life less comfortable.
Finally and terrifyingly, women were treated even worse than I had imagined. In medieval times women had no rights, at all! Wives were not partners in life, they were slaves, often taken by force from enemies or bought for money. I wanted to paint a picture of a society where women don't have anything like the equality I'm used to (as flawed as it is), so that I can draw a contrast with modern society and point out its flaws but medieval society was terrifyingly worse than even my most horrific imaginings. So again my world is different to that, I don't want to portray life for women as bad as it actually was in medieval Europe.
The pecking order, it's human nature to want to know where you stand with those around you. so confrontations to sort out the pecking order are inevitable. In medieval society servants fell into two distinct classes. The sons of people of influence/nobles doing effectively an apprenticeship as a servant. They made contacts and learned important skills until they could establish their own household. The others were women and serfs, in both cases effectively slaves paid almost nothing and expected to act with complete obedience.
So in my world I'm going for something of a hybrid model of the servant/master relationship. Two classes of servants, the noble brats and the commoners. However the commoners are paid a little in addition to room and board and basic clothes supplied. They also have some common law rights. Common law started in England in the later part of the medieval period. So my world is something like late middle ages with a touch of renaissance and a touch of SciFi/fantasy.
Some links to things I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_household
http://www.ancientfortresses.org/medieval-castle-life.htm
http://mail.islux.lu/librarylinks/Medieval+3rd+grade/Servants.htm
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher/373/guilds.htm
http://www.eelkat.com/MedievalServants.html
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40275569?sid=21105789168813&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3737536
http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/
...and many others.
A.I.Marin.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
A Note About the Calendar
I mentioned before that I wanted to post some additional content for my books here so I'm making a start.
In the books when writing from the perspective of characters on the world of Caleit I often mention weekdays with strange names. Here is the list of days and how they correspond to our week here on Earth.
Marday = Monday
Binday = Tuesday
Worday = Wednesday
Voxday = Thursday
Renday = Friday
Sarday = Saturday
Gelday = Sunday
Speaking of calendars and such. It's not immediately obvious in Book I but it will become obvious in Book II, the length of the year is not the same on Caliet as on Earth. I dropped one deliberate hint, will anyone spot it?
A.I.Marin.
In the books when writing from the perspective of characters on the world of Caleit I often mention weekdays with strange names. Here is the list of days and how they correspond to our week here on Earth.
Marday = Monday
Binday = Tuesday
Worday = Wednesday
Voxday = Thursday
Renday = Friday
Sarday = Saturday
Gelday = Sunday
Speaking of calendars and such. It's not immediately obvious in Book I but it will become obvious in Book II, the length of the year is not the same on Caliet as on Earth. I dropped one deliberate hint, will anyone spot it?
A.I.Marin.
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
I'm a Published Author
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