Writing Meme Day 12

what story did you feel you did the best job of world-building? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?

Hmm. Well, I don't really world build with historicals, I just slide my characters into a world that existed - as best I can, so I suppose it has to be my Sci-fi short story "Whatever the Risk" (which will, eventually, be a complete set of short stories about the same characters in episodic short stories with an overreaching arc)

Two penniless gutter-boys from Vath, a planet with nothing to recommend it other than dirt and rocks.  They come into some money and get their chance to get off the planet, and eventually end up with their own ship.  I'm having fun creating an entirely imagined universe.

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When I was working in Norwich I hated it—there’s a commuter road from where I live to Norwich and it’s single carriageway for about 3 miles before it reaches the dual carriageway – and every single day it would obviously be a bottleneck.  Now I travel in the opposite direction across country and the worst I had to deal with was a tractor—going at 30 miles an hour and spitting mud all over my car (which made it marginally cleaner) a pheasant, wandering blithely across the road, and a  couple of kamikaze wood pigeons who were too fat to get very far off the ground. Bliss.

Dad is reading the paper, and so we create new routines for ourselves.

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