Civic Geek Catalog Update 2/8/2015

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The latest Civic Geek Catalog update is here – with our first Horror charity!  As always the Civic Geek Catalog is categorized by Geekery and Category.

Computing

Horror

Writing

  • Female Geeks
    • Girls Write Now – Supports future female writers with mentoring, advice, and more.
  • Literacy
    • Worldreaders – Brings digital books to those in need, with a focus on Africa.
  • Military Support
    • United Through Reading – Connects US military personnel with their children by video-recorded book readings.

Respectfully,

– Steven Savage
http://www.musehack.com/
http://www.informotron.com/
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

Way With Worlds: Conflict’s End

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Demolished House

(Way With Worlds is a weekly column on the art of worldbuilding published at Seventh Sanctum, Muse Hack, and Ongoing Worlds)

We’ve been discussing conflict as of late, from psychology to how speed (or lack of it) affects conflict. But conflicts inevitably end, if only because they become something else or because everyone involved ends up sort of dead. So what happens afterwards? What happens when conflict ends?

That’s going to happen in your world. In fact, the end of conflict may define the end of a tale you tell in your world – or be the start of one. It may involve many fine details you need to consider.  Smoking aftermaths tend to be more work than actually causing them, worldbuilding-wise.

So we have to ask – what comes after.

But first, I want to address what Conflict means for worldbuilding – because it has a place.

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Steve’s Update 2/2/2015

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Been awhile everyone!

So what’s been up?

First, busy at work, which is why so few updates.  I mean really busy with work and work-related tasks.  I’ve had to even reign in some social activities, so you can guess my other projects are similarly limited.

I did present at AODSF and it went awesome.  I focus on my Networking event at Muse Hack, and this is one that should probably go into my permanent inventory of things I do.

Haven’t done much at Seventh Sanctum beyond doing Way With Worlds due to being busy.  I still want to do the Magic Power Generator, but may do a few more “recreational” generators just to get the mojo going.

There’s a few things on hold that I’ll go into when I am actually going to start them so stay tuned.

Respectfully,

– Steven Savage
http://www.musehack.com/
http://www.informotron.com/
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/