La Vie Boheme

More research

Still in research mode. I even broke down and, in true Julie-fashion, made a research page of all the things I'm looking into right now. It's a little bare at the moment, but I keep adding things. Some interesting ideas for global disasters. It's tricky to find a scenario that results in the destruction of civilization without completely wiping out mankind too. Then there's the question of how long it takes the survivors to rebuild. I need a timeframe that's long enough for some portions of humanity to be completely ignorant of our past, but for other portions to be at technological levels that surpass ours -- and I need the two groups to be in relatively close proximity to each other. This is the first real worldbuilding I've done -- it's a little scary.

Speaking of scary, last night at Write Club, Julie and I discovered that Borders Cafe blocked off the only accessible power outlets, the ones we'd been using to power our laptops while we wrote. We were grousing about needing to find another place (because neither of our laptops are powerful enough to run on battery power for more than an hour and a half or so). Julie said, "Someone needs to open a cafe for writers."

We looked at each other for a moment, and then in perfect, unplanned unison said, "No."

After we stopped laughing, Julie said, "We'd never have time to do our writing, if we did." I agreed, and we shelved the idea of a writer's cafe.