The kinds of things I ask about . . .

I belong to an online writer’s group where I can post research questions. For my own entertainment, I made a list of the things I’ve asked about in the last two years. Some of these are for works that are out now (e.g. Turning Darkness Into Light, The Endless Knot, “Vīs Dēlendī”); others are for works I have written but not yet sold; others are for back-burner projects.

Some are more about soliciting suggestions of things of a certain type:

Mythological thefts (for the good of humankind)
Perfume blends
Near Eastern tales and myths
Folksongs
Archaeology-based plots
Celtic battle music recs
Slavic music recs
Card games played with non-numerical decks
Words that fit a specific pattern

But others were more about getting references or facts:

Scholarship in antiquity
1930s British university structure
Life on a Saturnian-type moon
Bronze forging and casting
Probabilities for a card game
Ancient Roman magic
Length of the lunar day and orbital mechanics considerations for launch
Historical Chinese cuisine
Jewish religious law and literary genres
Short-term cons to build trust
Treasonous activities
Social models of friendship
Charting a horoscope
Basics of lunar landing
Lunar calendar based around two moons
Moons and tidal mechanics
Punishments for Buddhist monks
Tattoos
Latin gerunds [I wanted somebody to check my grammar]
Putting gold inside clay
Fire scenario: starting it, dealing with it, and fighting it
Russian-to-English grammatical quirks
Cuneiform

. . . apparently I’ve been thinking about moons a lot lately? Oddly, though, those questions are for three completely unrelated projects. Anyway, it’s an amusing cross-section of some of the things I’ve been researching over the last two years, and I’d say it’s a fair snapshot of what my fiction is like in general!

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