9½ Weeks

No, not the film.  It's been 9½ weeks since starting on the Streetvendor's Guide, more or less on a whim after considering the project for about 18 months.  Since that time, I've fallen 6 days behind my goal of one page a day.  I've completed 60 pages and a bit, and just under 55,000 words.  I'm happy to say that I did get some work done yesterday, and a considerable amount today.  I have a few items of fish-based food to add (fish oil, garum, caviar), plus a survey of vegetable oils, and then I am done with store-bought foodstuffs.  Then I have tobacco products to do, and then I'm free to start the Innkeeper section.

This involves detailed descriptions of rooms, services provided by an inn to its guests, then more food as I recreate much of the content from the menu, including additional menu items.  Once that's done, I can finally stop describing how things taste, as I'll be entering into textiles and talking about how things feel.

Around the last few days of March, I'll publish another five preview pages for those donating $10 or more to my Patreon, or anyone who wants to do a single $10 donation using the donate button on the sidebar.  Remember to send me your email address when you do so; I'm at alexiss1@telus.net.  By then I hope to have written an additional 9 pages, so that in all I'll have previewed only 15 out of a total of nearly 70.  This isn't bad for me or for you; after all, you're just paying $2 a page full of good stuff.

Any who wish, obviously, feel free to give me whatever you can.  The time is getting closer to when I have to start assigning pictures to the content, though to keep the book as light as possible, I don't intend to fill it with images like a WOTC splatbook.  Those who have seen it understand that it's dense but quite readable ... I don't want to take away from it being a slab of material that takes the reader months, even a couple of years, to fully unpack.  Some, I know, have found themselves looking up things from the previews to read more on something.  If nothing else, the Guide is a jumping off point to hundreds of hours of looking things up on the internet.

I'll keep this short.  Today's snippet on Patreon relates to mustard.  Long-time readers know that I started this blog with a discussion of mustard and it's relationship to role-playing.  Fun to add one more aspect to that age-old bit.