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Are they all going to be set on earth?
I'm hoping my series will be around 20-25 books long. I have quite a few of my plots, apart from book two, they are mostly just outlines. None of my ideas are right for book three though and I do like ideas to rummage around in my mind for a year at least before I start working on them properly.
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20-25! Wow, that’s impressive! You’re committed to those characters!
Hmm... Machines, the current one, is half-Earth, Wasps are fully on Earth, Romanov is mostly on Earth, but Pyramids is set on another planet.
Are you having a hard time with writng day to day details from a different time period? I’m getting stuck on the little things, like what cell phone reception was like in DC at the time. My memory apparently isn’t reliable, because I could have sworn I owned a flip phone in 98, but all the websites I just visited said I couldn’t have. I can google details like what phone models were popular, but its hard to capture the mood of the times. I’m binging old TVs but they don’t cover everything.
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Hmm... Machines, the current one, is half-Earth, Wasps are fully on Earth, Romanov is mostly on Earth, but Pyramids is set on another planet.
Are you having a hard time with writng day to day details from a different time period?
The internet is a bit of a benefit/problem for me, there are so many photos wrongly labeled circa 1919 that I'm sticking to ones in books for anything more than general. Luckily I got hold of copies of Lost London and Lost England 1880-1930, they are full of old photographs of the buildings, and there are quite a few of the people in them as well.
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You have taken your research very seriously, but I guess you have to, since your readers will expect a historical series to be very accurate. I claim some SF leeway, especially considering my heroes are a black-budget top-secret task force. All of their tech would be government-issued, next-gen prototypes ... so I need to see what came out a year or so after my time frame! Sigh, I’ll keep looking things up as issues arrive. Reality is hard. I think I’ll be glad to hop on the flying saucers when that part arrives.
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When I'm doing the research for book two, I bet I'll be thinking how much easier it would be if I'd gone with 'Piggy of the Scotland Yard' after all .
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This is very true, as long as you don't take on too much, a job can be benificial.
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The question of loneliness comes up often in the farming/homesteading community, since we usually work alone. The best comment I’ve seen was the gentleman who declared he hasn’t been lonely since he placed a potted tomato seedling on his home office desk. He probably does need to get out more.
Sometimes even I need to get out and see other people, so I run errands to Rural King or Lowes. I’ll start conversations by asking for advice, which farmers are usually very happy to provide, so I gain useful knowledge as well as some limited company.
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