Welcome to the 24th writing club update! This one’s a little late, apologies for that. But we’re doing our best to not let you down even when things briefly get in the way 😊
We’ve had some blistering heat so I hope you all had some okay enough shelter or good AC. I’m on Europe where AC isn’t so widespread yet, so I’ve been sweating quite a bit. But I’ve also done quite a bunch of writing, yay!
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I made some progress this month - the big thing is the solarpunk TTRPG campaign. We’ve gotten through two more sections of edits and I’m pleased with the improvements that have come out of that.
I also took some time to work on my temporarily-abandoned solarpunk postcard series and finished two new photobashes. The first is this scene of boat traffic on a river the second is about levee removal and house shifting but it’s part of the Story Seed Library Art Collab so I haven’t shared it yet.
The next one will hopefully be of manufacturing in a solarpunk world, with an emphasis on small, local, generalized fab shops which can meet a hopefully-reduced demand for new production using resilient open source designs.
My hope is that getting into art again will help build up some familiarity for when we finally share the campaign - it’s been so much work for so many people, I can’t wait to share it but also want to make sure it’s seen to whatever extent I can.
I haven’t had much time for the solarpunk adventure gamebook but I’ve written a few small sections.
I started researching phytoremediation of road salt contaminated soils and water to add to our page on the worldbuilding wiki. I’m also trying to gather my notes on levee removal into a page for the Environmental Restoration section.
Whoa that looks so cool. All these links look infinitely fascinating. >>
The road salts thing is just a reminder how many ways we find to harm the environment. It’s sad.
Exciting to hear that your campaign will release soon! 💜
It’s pretty much another manmade existential crisis we’re sleepwalking into in some of the cold parts of the US and the wild thing is how unnecessary it is - other states and countries with snowier winters use far less. It’s just a habit and way of thinking with tremendous inertia behind it. There are some good movements and organiziations challenging it, but as with all these things it’s taking time we don’t really have and fixing the damage is a lot harder and more expensive than just not causing it in the first place.
Thanks for the note on the campaign! I’m really excited for you all to see it, it really does bundle together just about every big solarpunk idea I’ve had