UPDATE 7/13/07: Sorry this hasn't been updated in so very long, I've been busy! Though there *are* other articles in the making somewhere. If there's anything any readers would be interested in seeing in here, though, please feel free to let me know! Hearing from interested people always inspires me to share more.

46 hits to the last entry...yow!!


UPDATE 3/9/06: I just noticed by accident that this was featured in the Fantasy Newsletter, but I was never informed it would be. Apologies that it hasn't been updated in so long--there ARE more essays to come, but I've been busy with other works, and this journal held limited interest anyway. Thanks to those who do stop by to read it though, I appreciate it. The entries here have way more hits than anything in my regular journal!!


A long time back, I started an indepth worldbuilding profile on my Apsiu culture, first referenced in my novel Horus. I have a HUGE list of questions relating to all aspects of Apsiu society, gained from online sources, which I intended to fill out completely as time allowed. I even created a journal here in which to do so. WELL...time never allowed this...and I had to even restart the job, seeing as I had learned so much more about my own creation in the course of rewriting my adult series, the Ameni Chronicles (TAC). I only got through a few sections before just plain running out of time and patience; the thought of having to redo the thing yet AGAIN is galling, and what's more, some of the questions just don't apply or I really don't KNOW what the answers to them are yet. Still, I can blather for thousands of words on other aspects of the culture which I do know a lot about, but which may be confusing to readers unfamiliar with this society.

I started writing a journal entry outlining the timeline of events leading up to the actions in TAC, then today as I was printing out some chapters of the story (should've done that ages ago o_o; ), I thought, why not create a NEW journal for ESSAYS on TAC and on Apsiu culture? That is, articles hopefully as informative as the doomed worldbuilding profile was destined to be, yet not as dry, and somewhat more loose and informal. And so...was born this journal here. I do not know when or how often I will update it, and it could always disappear at any time should I decide this too is not worth the trouble. But here it is, for now.

If it's successful, maybe I'll create one for my Manitou Island series too. (A storyline I found TOO COMPLEX to warrant a worldbuilding profile!!)

Let's see now if this works, and I hope you enjoy it whether it does or not.