A question for my fellow writers.

[gridlore]

As I take a break from the tedious task of converting Classic Traveller UWPs to GURPS Traveller info strings for the project I'm working on, this occurred to me.

I can't write without noise. I need music, the TV, something around me or I can't write a word. I also need munchies and a Coke.

So how do you other writers work? What environment do you require?

Comments

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'm taking another stab at a sector book for Traveller.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I forget which sector are you working on?

I was thinking it was Trojan Reach.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

That project was killed a while back, for very good reasons. I really screwed the pooch on that one.

What I'm lookin at is Alpha Crucis, the sector trailing the Solomani Rim. I'm going to post for comment some of my ideas later this weekend.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

What I have always wondered about Alpha Crucis was the lack of an X-boat link from the Solomani part of the Solomani Rim to that sector.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The Solomani don't have an X-boat system.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Then what do they call those thick black lines on the maps in the Solomani Rim Supplement?

For that matter is there a Zhodani name for a dedicated J4 courier route?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

This where we run into conflicting canon.

Supplement 10 was written before we had all the deatails of the Solomani Confederation. So it had X-boat lines marked in.

Later, when the Confederation was detailed, no mention of such a service was made (and indeed, given the more diversified nature of the Confederation, none was needed.)

Then we get Rim of Fire which puts the verdamnit lines back in! So now we have some sort of communications system.

This is why Traveller writers drink.

Now, as for why the lines don't cross into Alpha Crucis.. Viva La Revolucian!