I have completed the text of my latest "historical" work, this time written as an edited diary, which you can find in the fan fiction section. I haven't yet put the pictures in part 4, but I wanted to put it up before it drove me insane. I've been using Uncle Torg's Citizen Tracker in addition to doing the diary and that means play a year pausing constantly to record information, save the game, fill in the Tracker and write up the diary entries. To make matters worse I decided (for some reason I cannot fathom at the moment) to do genealogies for everybody and downloaded a freeware, open source program called Gramps from Sourceforge. It is a nice, stand alone program which does not require subscribing to an expensive web site. Problem: It wants real dates, not seasons and game years. Then I realized that 12 seasons per year do not divide evenly into 5 life years (age counter) per year. I did some calculations and did a chart that more or less works to convert and started entering data. What was I thinking?!? Now I'm committed (or ought to be committed) so I keep going. Anyway, I hope the diaries bring some enjoyment to all. It may be awhile before the second volume comes out since I'll be spending the next week reading a book manuscript for my wife that is about ready to go out. After that, given another attack of insanity, I might be back at it.
