Hi all. I'm Chilari. I found this place through a link on NaNoWriMo (where I am known as Anezka). I've been looking for a community like this for a while, without any luck, so I'm glad to finally find one.
I'm a postgrad student studying the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. I find it interesting, and also pull ideas from what I study to influence my stories. My favourite authors include Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, David Gemmell and Charles Stross. I tend to prefer writing soft or light fantasy, set in other worlds but without elves, dwarves, dragons and magic; or if there is magic it's a passive force affecting certain aspects of the world rather than something people can control.
At the moment I'm working on a story in which an early industrial world (they've got guns, early trains, printing presses etc) is devastated by a plague which kills three quarters of the population. The story follows a group of survivors and the choices they make in what becomes a very complicated political situation as various different groups try to gain (or regain) control over the local area. I'm still working through some of the kinks before I start writing in earnest.
I'm a postgrad student studying the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. I find it interesting, and also pull ideas from what I study to influence my stories. My favourite authors include Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, David Gemmell and Charles Stross. I tend to prefer writing soft or light fantasy, set in other worlds but without elves, dwarves, dragons and magic; or if there is magic it's a passive force affecting certain aspects of the world rather than something people can control.
At the moment I'm working on a story in which an early industrial world (they've got guns, early trains, printing presses etc) is devastated by a plague which kills three quarters of the population. The story follows a group of survivors and the choices they make in what becomes a very complicated political situation as various different groups try to gain (or regain) control over the local area. I'm still working through some of the kinks before I start writing in earnest.