So I'm slowing putting up links to other people's NaNoWriMo weblogs, journals, websites, whathaveyou on my links page. The one thing that I find annoying are LiveJournalers who have made their websites "friends only". I understand that some people don't want everyone to see their stuff, but what's the point of advertising the url on the Nano forums (where I usually pick links up) if nobody's able to view anything?
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Ah, most things are starting to gel. Yesterday, it all hit me--Michael Faraday. I read a biography about him earlier in the year and I didn't really think it was much use to me except for the fact that I found him interesting. But last night around 11 or 12 o'clock, while I was thinking about my nebulous steampunk idea and how little I knew about 19th century technology, I realized that I did already know something. And then Marco Polo and Alister Crowley jumped in and made it interesting.
I'm not going to actually use these historical figures in the story. And yes, I do realize that some of the historical figures are not 19th century. More likely, I'll be putting bits and pieces of them into major secondary characters. And Faraday, of all people, has given me an idea on how to make the magic system in this alternate world work.
