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So now I have to research gunsmithing? I knew it would come to this eventually in this story, but I didn't think it would happen so soon. Woe is me. Every time I turn around in Charged with Folly I've got to become an instant mini-expert on something new--or make it up completely. That's the great thing about being a writer.

My physicist friend was quizzing me on the cherubimticon, my airship, the other day. I knew if anyone could pick that impossible dream apart, it would be him. Finally, I just said, "It's magic, okay??" I will have to fix up some of the tech next time around, though.

Oh, and thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thursdayhaiku I was steered towards a helpful Nova on PBS the other night. "Wings of Madness," all about the early attempts at flight, including dirigibles, and focusing on a brilliant early pioneer who is largely forgotten these days, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Very interesting and very synchronistically broadcast.

Date: 2006-11-10 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
I have a gunsmith friend from my historical re-enacting days, so I know a few things. You could try me, anyway.

You didn't tell your physicist friend that your airship was toted around by cherubim?

Date: 2006-11-10 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
That's the era of firearms-- the era of anything, really-- that I know more about.

Date: 2006-11-11 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
* falls down the mountainside *

As.......you........wish.........

Date: 2006-11-10 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com
Gunsmithing? LOL... Interesting. I'd go with "make it up completely." :-)

Date: 2006-11-10 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com
Ahhhh... but verisimilitude is merely creating the appearance of truth. You can make something up entirely and still give it verisimilitude. :-)

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