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As you may know I moderate for #WriteRoom and have put up many prompts for their visitors to work on. For your benefit here they all are, if any more come aling they shall be added to this here list.

write a 2,000 word essay on the differences between the words there, their & they're, why? Because you're illiterate
Write a 2,000 word story on a day in the life of a chess piece, any chess piece
Write a 2,000 word story on how aspects of both communism and capitalism could change your life either for the better or the worse
You are in a high class dinner party but, leaving to go the gents room, or the ladies, a chandelier falls on top of you. In no less than 2,000 words describe how you get out of this situation and explain it to the host
You are falling down a never ending sinkhole, not able to get back up ever again in your life. In 2,000 words describe your feelings as you know you will never see your family/friends/loved ones again
You are a giant squid, living in the depths of oceans, one of the top predators in your habitat, but one day you wander away from home and, in 2,000 words, describe how you fare when coming up against other top predators of sharks and man'o'war jellyfish
The Mayan’s believed that the world is due to end on the 25th December 2012 (the best Christmas present ever (sarcasm)) but as all information they held has been destroyed we don't know how it is to happen. In 2,000 words write about the last day of the world
You lie in a bed, freshly cleaned and ready for you but it doesnt feel right, maybe its the countless wires sticking into your arm, the board on your right threatening to flatline or the really obnoxious nurse staring over you since the younger, good looking one went home after her shift finished two hours ago. Face it, you're in a hospital and you don't know what you've got
Squirrels, yes squirrels. The furry little critters, red and grey and killing each other. Recently though they have been fighting a war against the pigeons of the world, going so far as to Kamikaze bomb them from trees. The war between these two creatures, mainly considered vermin is your task to document as the sole thought of it takes up your entire mind. (Prompt added by *The-Monoblos)

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March update with a Q and A

Journal Entry: Tue Mar 19, 2013, 9:34 AM
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Hey guys, I known it's been a while since my latest journal and any real subsequent activity but I have been really quite swamped of late but I promise I am coming back to be around a little more now, not that I'm not around anyway mind. The main reason why I haven't done an update for a while is because I've been finishing the last dregs of editing on T.F.D, which I can say is all finished - all done, even the ending (which I think is an ending deserving of this incredibly long three year project). Of course even before I get to releasing the end of this mammoth story arc I really do want to thank everyone who's taken the time to read both novels 1 & 2 and even some people for proof-reading, helping out with characters, places, scenes where I've forgotten the word that I want to use and everyone really in general since I started this long trek - and it has been a long trek. Without a doubt the trilogy has changed rather a lot since I started in back in C.O.W and it now has taken on a different persona, it's jumped to a different scale of politics and if you were to read all the way through it you'd notice the style changes considerably as we get into each new book, trying to alter a micro/macro problem solving ratio in each novel. This is probably most obvious in T.F.D itself where everything has jumped considerably since the end of T.B - but oh well I'm probably boring you with jargon and pragmatic knowledge here aren't I?
So yes, this update is kind of a Q&A, kind of an update. I'll be answering some questions about my future project  at the end of the update but first I do want to jump into updating people what is going on in the big, wide world anyway.

:bulletred: Well, for one, #WriteRoomies is still going strong - and this month, so far, has been the only month I can remember in which there aren't any large issues, so thank you everyone for presumably perking up over the last few weeks and helping us to get to this point. For anyone who doesn't know of us or are yet to join we welcome all forms of literature and came to be born as part of the #WriteRoom chat. The chat is as large as ever and if you are a lit enthusiast and want some place to chill, relax and talk spontaneously with other lit enthusiasts then you are of course more than welcome. Also in terms of groups #TheDragonWriters is a fantastic place to be for writers who look at dark fantasy and/or dragon based novels. We would love to as many people as we can get in there as well so do pop along.

:bulletred: This is just a small point for a couple of people who know me well enough. I am very interested in devmeets and though there are rarely any devmeets at this point in the year , mostly because of Easter making us all too fat to turn up to them, we can start to look forward to devmeets being organized in the year. I will be very happy to go to, or host any devmeets in my surrounding area - and I am looking into the possibility of getting elsewhere in the country if enough people want me to turn up for a meet. Specifically I am talking about the possibility of the devmeet world tour event in London if there is going to be one again this year. I know this is something that a couple of people want to see and it's something that I will certainly see if I can try and do.

So, Q&A about my future project - which did spark some interest in #WriteRoom where I can mostly be found. I will try to answer as many questions as I can remember but if there are any more that I have forgotten let me know. The name for this upcoming project is called "The Independence states" & I have already said that it will be both a non-chronological & non linear project. Obviously I'm not releasing vital information to the project right now but I am going to be releasing more in the future. I mostly tried to answer these questions as conceptually as I could because they're coming from information in my incredibly over sized world-build which of course defines many concepts. Anyway, I hope you have a read and I hope something sparks to keep you interested for the future.
:bulletred: Non chronological '&' non linear? When doing the world for this project I created back stories for the world with enough time to cover well over 250 years of history in my newly made up world.  Of course I could have gone and said something like "in each novel for X amount of time I could look at one specific event and then move on to the next" but that's not something I particularly want to do. Because I want this project to be significantly low key to focus on many separate big events of the world would kind of defeat of the point. In order to keep everything low key I'm going to be playing about across the period but trying to stay away from the big politics of it all which I believe will help the underlying point and, inevitably, the story.
:bulletred: Does this mean that there's not going to be a tardis in the story? Honestly I don't like how people might have instantly jumped to a tardis situation when thinking about different timezones. I created a fantasy world, fantasy worlds don't require BBC television to dominate events in order to get any sort of interest in. I've played around with certain elements in the world, specifically the again of characters and the aging of the world in general to something that I like quite a lot. Because, being a fantasy, the world has been altered to make things look a certain way it creates a skew effect. Part of this skew effect, which I can't talk about quite yet, is vital is how people take the idea of long life, good health and certain elements in receiving this.
:bulletred: You said this story is going to be LOW-key? Very low key. I can't say what the story is but I can say it will definitely be low key. For me, the C.O.W trilogy has steadily got higher and higher key with the characters being at the top of the food chain making all the important choices in the world and everyone having to follow suit because, really, there isn't seen to be any other way. I've done that for three years now and, while nice to look at the people at the top, it's not the people at the top who make up everything that happens is it? Being able to see what other people think of large scale events is thus fascinating. Not having power or not wanting to have power can either keep people back or show a certain level of sombre personality which is partly what I want to look at in this new project.
:bulletred: If the story is going to be basing around a poignant issue then how far is the world going to be a 'fantasy'? Well the world is definitely going to be a fantasy. I've always liked to do a slightly different fantasy to stuff though, albeit the C.O.W trilogy got steadily more orcs & so on as it went on but the level of "how far fantasy" it is does go slightly into the story and how it's going to look. The story is very much based off humanity and I am going to be take it away from high fantasy to maybe put in some other elements but we'll still be seeing a few high fantasy moments - the one's that are in there are really to continue pushing through a specific point or a specific idea from which we could draw a parallel with our own world (or something like that).
:bulletred: So if this project isn't going to be completely "high fantasy" what could it incorporate instead? This, for me, is really kind of a personal element to the world which I created. I'm hoping to bring a lot of early medieval thoughts in and it's really the early medieval period which hopefully we will all be looking at making some links with. Even going back into the fantasy slightly I'm looking into how we as people incorporate things like myths into every day life and even where myths and legends come from. The medieval periods had a lot to do with fear based myth creations for one and it's easy to see where certain elements of high fantasy come in, the creation of such monsters as dragons and dire animals are of course included in this amongst others.

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Cool stuff! Hope to see more ;)
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Great work! :D
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Your work seems great, I love what I read so far! I will watch and continue reading
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