Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

• 23:23 Being tempted by Threadless again. threadless.com #
• 06:59 Thinking about spaceships and worldbuilding and writing and photography and mixed media and lacquer and found objects. #
• 07:00 But I have to go into work instead of doing anything interesting. Yargh! #
• 11:59 With the Republican convention, we'll get "pedal pubs," multi-rider bikes that serve alcohol?? Awesome! #
• 13:55 Just stole my husband's identity to take care of some things he was procrastinating on. Way too easy. #
• 14:00 Delayed CSA note - used horseradish whips to make prepared horseradish. My imagination failed. #
• 15:04 Dear fidgeting writer-monkey, Research is not "wasting writing time." It is important. Suck it. #
• 15:57 Wikipedia is a giant bog of references and cross-references, internal and exernal, and it is trying to *eat my brain*. #
• 17:32 Aw, all my friends are bursting out of their winter cocoons. Which seems to mean lots of overbooking and craziness. #

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Thursday, half-day at NgithOwl
* penthius freewriting, a low potential sketch of a Familia a Familia encounter.
* Lots and lots and lots of research about spaceships, and FTL alternatives.
* Posted previous writing log.

I had forgotten the level of research necessary for writing a science fiction (can I say it?) novel. It's like giving birth; there's gotta be a biological process that makes you willing to forget most of it, or you'd never be willing to do it again. This, despite me liking research and finding science interesting.

I now have three pages of notes (and at least 7 immediately linked-off articles still to read) about future spaceflight and ways to sidestep the whole "breaking the laws of physics" problem that arises when planning a setting with regular interstellar travel. The slow ships (slowships) are still able to move between inhabited planets in months, not decades or centuries. The fast ships, natch, are much better at this because they were designed for it, not rehabbed from old generation colony ships. That's just from me trying to figure out the general type of ship, not even going into deeper design issues.

( Noodling about spaceflight and FTL and worldbuilding. )