I kinda want to send Penny to Texas next. They got oil, some very old towns, the Alamo, and about a million interesting wrecks off the coast. They also got more dinosaurs than you can shake an animatronic thagomizer at.
Goings-on at a fancy dinosaur exhibit is fun. Everybody loves some amusement park shenanigans, and adding dinosaurs is only further insurance that something will go worng.
Of course archaeologists famously don't do dinosaurs.
But I'm not all that enthralled by doing archaeology on missions, old towns, or the Alamos, or even Washington-on-Brazos, the "birthplace of Texas."
I'm more intrigued by marine archaeology. Always wanted to work that in at some point. But that's a ton of research. And, really, the good way to phrase "Write what you know" is "Write what you want to know." Write about things that excite you, either through prior exposure or because you really want to write about them.
I've got this emotional stub of Penny being a low-wage worker at some soul-less tech center in some up-and-coming development on the outskirts of a national park...until something goes terribly right. (Wrong for her, right for getting a story out of it.)
Well, I really do have a prior novel to finish. Then I might clean the decks, stick a plastic fern in the corner and hang some paper lanterns, and get the hell out of First Person POV for a while.
Assembled a cart at NewEgg, too. I can only sorta write during downtime at work and looking up parts -- as annoying as it can be -- is a way to pass the time. Of course, the only graphics project I've got that is actually for anyone other than myself, is the new cover I'm trying...and there's no AI involved in that.
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