Two short clips from the early days of aviation, when barnstorming was a legit way for a flyer to make some dough.
A man standing on top of wing of aeroplane flight with camera (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
And yes, this is again a spin-off of my research for my novel… and I think it’s quite fun.
Enjoy!
Ok – getting organized.
Right now I’m writing the final 5000 words of my novel (that will probably grow to 7500, but that’s another story) and I’m
. outlining the sequel
. planning a number of proposal for another novel
. getting my full-year writing project underway
. setting up the early stages of a roleplaying game project that will probably also involve fiction-writing
. trying to schedule future outings – short stories, novelettes etc., and the marketing and distribution of the same.
So, two problems, one psychological, one practical. Continue reading
This is the sort of thing one learns writing pulp fiction…
If you fall from ten thousand feet – say, if somebody threw you out of an airship during a fistfight – you reach the ground in about a minute.
You reach terminal velocity in about fifteen seconds, and at that point you’ve fallen about 1500 feet.
From the moment you reach terminal velocity, it’s 6 seconds per 1000 feet – or 51 seconds for the remaining 8500 feet of your jump.
So – total time for free-falling from 10.000 feet, 66 seconds, or, little more than a minute. Continue reading
Something I found online, and it’s just right…
The next thing I’ll have to buy is a calendar – one of those big, square calendars with great artwork and a square box for each day of the month.
The reason is my writing is turning into a full time activity – after all, nothing else moves, writing and selling my stories is better than starving and sleeping under a bridge.
For 2015 I have four long projects slated – two are finalized and ready to go, one is in its drafting phase, and the fourth is awaiting confirmation.
And I’m keeping a certain amount of “free time” for extra activities.
Should they all come to fruition, this will mean writing full time, eight hours a day, five days a week – leaving weekends for leisure activities like… ouch, writing. Continue reading
This gentleman is an artist’s reconstruction of one of the Early Eurasians from the archaeological site of Kostenki-Borshchevo, in southern Russia. The remains were found in 1954.
Genome data seem to indicate that this people had a higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA than we have today – make what you will of that.
I was quite surprised, when I saw this image, because this guy is very very similar to a character in my novel – a character that appears in the final chapters, the ones I’m redrafting right now.
I already explained how important it is, for me, to have visual references – well, this visual reference appeared serendipitously on my PC on Sunday, and unlocked a scene I was having a hard time writing.
Karavansara 