So, then, what part of a timeline do you find hardest to convincingly write about?
For me, it's a tough decision - war or finances? Both are entirely alien worlds to me. Diplomacy I can handle, that's just lying politely. But military strategy, upon reaching my sensory organs, finds a square saying "GO DIRECTLY TO THE WASTEPAPER BIN, DO NOT ENTER LONG-TERM MEMORY, DO NOT INVOKE GLIMMER OF UNDERSTANDING".
But when you compare this to the black hole in my mind that in other people would be economic knowledge, I immediately transform into a small ginger Corsican. I've been trying to describe economic crises for Astonishing the World, and I can't do it. Not without having an exact replica of the Great Depression appear a few decades early, and I don't want to stoop to that again, after I copy-pasted the English Civil War into sixteenth-century France in A Kingdom and a Horse.
So, I guess this is both a survey and a plaintive cry for help. If anyone has anything to contribute about the state of the economies of the Union and the Confederacy after a successful Civil War, please, PM me.
For me, it's a tough decision - war or finances? Both are entirely alien worlds to me. Diplomacy I can handle, that's just lying politely. But military strategy, upon reaching my sensory organs, finds a square saying "GO DIRECTLY TO THE WASTEPAPER BIN, DO NOT ENTER LONG-TERM MEMORY, DO NOT INVOKE GLIMMER OF UNDERSTANDING".
But when you compare this to the black hole in my mind that in other people would be economic knowledge, I immediately transform into a small ginger Corsican. I've been trying to describe economic crises for Astonishing the World, and I can't do it. Not without having an exact replica of the Great Depression appear a few decades early, and I don't want to stoop to that again, after I copy-pasted the English Civil War into sixteenth-century France in A Kingdom and a Horse.
So, I guess this is both a survey and a plaintive cry for help. If anyone has anything to contribute about the state of the economies of the Union and the Confederacy after a successful Civil War, please, PM me.