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Thought You Might Like This

So, sometime in March I went to a few things for Writers and Readers week, which was a part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival. As well as the solo Neil Gaiman talk (which heaps of people attended), I went to Once Upon A Time, which was a talk about children’s/YA lit with Neil Gaiman and Margo Lanagan.

Fastfoward to today, and me checking my feed reader. In the latest links and plugs post by Bibliophile Stalker, I saw that there was a podcast recording of that talk put up by Radio New Zealand.

I was quite chuffed by that, and immediately went off to check out the rest of the podcast. As well as the Gaiman/Lanagan talk, there was also one about writing for YA, which I downloaded but have yet to listen to.

I love finding (and sharing) random things like this.

Wiki for Worldbuilding? Apparently So!

So. I have a new idea for a novel. Yes. Another novel. It’s a YA steampunk fantasy with a male protagonist. But I am not going to work on it just yet, well, not actually start typing out chapters and the like. I have enough on my plate with Bones and the editing of Blood Bound that I do not want another major project right now, especially one that requires as much research and world-building as this one does.

But this is one idea that I do not want to lose while I am working on other novels. I wanted to keep snippets, notes, ideas, maps and all sorts in one place, but knowing my track record with notebooks (hint: it’s bad) I was more than a little worried about still having those notes when the time came to actually write Lionheart. And then I found an interesting blog entry on using wiki software for worldbuilding. So now, instead of several notebooks with pieces of paper sliding out of it, I now have a private wiki hidden somewhere to keep all my notes and additions for Lionheart, and can easily edit it when I think of something new.

In the meantime, though, my focus is on Bones and Blood Bound, and doing research for Lionheart by reading books/watching movies with a steampunk theme. Suggestions would be wonderful.