I Love the Game of D&D
It's been a very good week of writing, though admittedly not here on the blog. Every day for the last week I've written a thousand words or more on the Streetvendor's Guide, so I feel back in the groove again, in a way I haven't been since March. I've completed the first draft of the "Innkeeper" section, which runs twelve pages. Seven varieties of lodging are described, with unique services and bedding down descriptions for each. I've also outlined three kinds of tavern, with details regarding space and
Today I started "cloth." A better header might have been "textiles," but as a word it doesn't exist in English until the 1620s ... and I am doing my best to avoid anachronistic language when I can. This isn't always possible, of course; the middle ages don't offer enough words of any kind to describe all that needs to be said in the book. But when I can avoid a particular word or a phrase in the header, I do.