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Subjected chapter 4 of "First You Have to Get There" to the Editing Pen of Death, and was going to send it to beta... only I forgot to save it to the floppy disk I brought with me. *slaps self upside the head*

Icky cold wet weather up here. And they haven't turned the heat on in my house yet. I'm burning candles for warmth, since I have to keep one window open a crack for ventilation. (When you live most of your life in one room -- including meals, as we have no dining room -- you need ventilation or things start to smell really funky.)

Finished my book on torture. Am now reading about the various "barbarians" who fought and eventually destroyed the western Roman empire. After that, I read about the history of dueling.

I am going to make my NaNoWriMo cultures as realistic as possible, so help me. And if that means knowing way too much about torture and dirty warfare and various and sundry methods of killing large groups of people, so be it. (It's not all gruesome. Some battle strategies are rather elegant, actually. Of course, people still die, but there's a certain satisfaction in watching someone create a plan and carry it through.)

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Elizabeth Culmer

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