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How To Write An Article That People Will Read

How To Motivate Yourself To Write

Improving Flow In Writing

Kiss Scenes 101: How to Write The Perfect Kiss

Step-By-Step Plan: Editing Your Own Writing

Novel Planning 101

How To Write A Good Plot Twist

How To Foreshadow

Setting: How To Describe The Setting In Your Stories

Tips For Fanfiction Writers

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Commentary On Social Issues In Writing

How To Incorporate Health Into Your Writing Routine

What To Cut Out Of Your Story

How To Fall In Love With Writing

Constructive Criticism: How To Give, Receive, and Utilize

Tackling Subplots

How To Make A Scene More Heartfelt

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How To Develop A Distinct Voice In Your Writing

How To Perfect The Tone In A Piece Of Writing

20 Mistakes To Avoid When Writing Young Adult Fiction/Romance

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Writing Through Mental Health Struggles

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A Guide To Tension & Suspense In Your Writing

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Writing Arguments Between Characters

Planning A Scene In A Story

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Ways To Fit Character Development Into your Story

Things To Know About Your Real-Life Setting

When To Stop Planning

Pros and Cons of Different Points Of View

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Why “Burnout” Is Okay - The Creativity Cycle

21 Plot Shapes and the Pros and Cons Of Each

How To Outline Effectively

Writing Good Villains

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Writing The First Chapter

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MY CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS (Check it out, it’s pretty cool. At least I think it is.)

Above: Possibly the most photogenic bread I’ve ever baked on Flickr.

From the household: the easiest bread recipe with really good results

This is the bread I make when I need plain white bread for everyday sandwich or toast purposes. It has a lovely crumb and is a substantial bread, not an airy-fairy “pan loaf” of the type too damn common in British and Irish supermarkets. (Which is not to mean that it’s one of those loaves you make that refuses to rise and which you therefore desperately characterize as “substantial” so people will think you meant it to come out that way.)

The basic recipe came from the website of Bäckerei Sieber in Au, a town in Canton St. Gallen in Switzerland. The recipe itself is for Tessinerbrot or “bread from Ticino”; down in that southern canton the Roman breadmaking techniques have persisted unusually tenaciously. Since Roman bread had a deserved reputation for being very high-end indeed – a reputation which Spanish-bred bakers brought to it – this is a good thing.

The peculiarity about this recipe (from the North American home baker’s point of view, anyway) is that the recipe manages its ingredients by mass rather than volume, even for the liquid. This is how professional bakers do things, though, at least in Switzerland: it seems to get around the problem of how much moisture your local flour is in a mood to absorb today. One caveat: this dough tends toward the wet and sticky end of the bread dough spectrum, so it’s really easier made in a mixer with a dough hook.  Also, I sometimes bake this using the bake-it-in-a-preheated-pot technique which derives from the famous Lahey no-knead bread recipe. Pot baking produces a good high rise with little work, and with a really nice crust. (Though sometimes the old-fashioned loaf pan technique produces very superior results, as above. The Bread Fairy was really sitting on my shoulder that day.)

This recipe makes one big loaf. I’ve baked this in anything from a Romertopf to a single US-style loaf pan to a 3-liter lidded casserole of enamelled cast iron. This recipe branches several times: think of it as a Choose-Your-Own-Bread story.

The ingredients:

The sweatdrop

Liberal use of the V sign, even in situations that did not call for it and does not require a camera to be present.

Falling over because someone said or did something so incredibly stupid it made you lose all strength and will to live.

When they do the anime face thing

Making characters squishy

the dignity laugh

(A table of contents will be available at the end of the series. In the meantime, you can find previous installments in the space building tag and other original posts in the posts by pear tag.)

Part of Fifteen: Further Research and Resources

AKA What Pear Read To Write This Series

I read a lot of stuff in preparation for writing this series of posts. Researching and writing each post usually took about 3-5 hours. Here's most of what I read and watched, though admittedly not all of it, and yes, I did go out and read some very basic, elementary-school-level things sometimes to make sure I wasn’t misremembering things or misrepresenting them.

My biggest suggestion is: When in doubt, go to Youtuber Artifexian. He goes through all the math and how it’s related to what, and even has conlang and calendar creation videos. You’ll see him pop up a lot on these lists.

For hard sci-fi writers looking for all the math equations, go through the video descriptions for the Artifexian videos linked below. He explains what each equation means and why you should bother with it.

Solar Systems:

Formation of the Solar System from Artifexian

Solar System Tutorial

Creating a realistic world(s) map - planetary systems

Other Planetary Systems from Artifexian

How to Create a Classical Planetary System from Artifexian

Stars:

Stars from Nasa’s StarChild

The Sun and Other Stars from BBC

Star Types from Enchanted Learning

How to Build a Star from Artifexian

Multi-Star Systems:

Can there be more than one star in a solar system, and if so how would it work?

Modelling a multi-star system with numerous planets and moons

Introduction to Multiple-Star Systems from Artifexian

What Are Multiple Star Systems from Universe Today

How Do Multiple-Star Systems Form? from Phys.org

Alien Planets With Extra Suns Can Have Strange Orbits from Space.com

Planet ‘Reared’ by Four Parent Stars from Nasa

Planets:

Discovering Planets Beyond: How Do Planets Form? from Hubblesite

What Kinds of Planets Are Out There? from Nasa

List of Planet Types

Dwarf Planets: Science Targets from Nasa

Building Dwarf Planets from Artifexian

Building Gas Giants from Artifexian

Gas Giant Myths from Artifexian

Extrasolar Gas Giants from Artifexian

Building Terrestrial Planets from Artifexian

The Trouble with Terrestrials from Artifexian

The Habitable Zone:

The Habitable Zone from PennState’s ASTRO 801 course

Planetary Habitability

Orbits:

What is an Orbit? from Artifexian

Building Gas Giant Orbits from Artifexian

Building Hot Jupiter Orbits from Artifexian

Building Terrestrial Planet Orbits from Artifexian

Building Gas Giant Moons from Artifexian

Building Terrestrial Planet Moons from Artifexian

Asteroids:

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteoroid, a meteorite, an asteroid, and a comet? from Hubblesite

Asteroids: Fun Facts and Information About Asteroids from Space.com

The Kuiper Belt from Nasa’s New Horizons

Planetary Considerations:

Seasons:

Interplanetary Seasons from Nasa

Weather, Weather, Everywhere? from Nasa (yes, the images are broken, but the information is still there)

Tidal Locking

Axial Tilt from Artifexian

Day/Night Cycles:

What Causes Day and Night? from Universe Today

How the Earth Works: Night and Day from howstuffworks

Rotation of Planets Influences Habitability from Astrobiology Magazine

Solar/Sidereal Days from Celestial North

Surface Features:

Terrestrial Planet Geology from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Labratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

How Do Planets Evolve? from Earthbound

Skies:

Why is the sky blue? from Nasa’s Space Place

Why do the planets have different colors? from Cool Cosmos

Could the sky on a planet theoretically be any color?

Why does the sky change color?

Why is the sky never green?

Life in Space:

Living in Space from NASA

Life in Space from Space Station Kids

What’s It Like to Live in Space? from LiveScience

What it’s REALLY like to be a NASA astronaut living in space for a year from BusinessInsider

Astronauts Answer Student Questions from NASA’s FAQ series

How Do Astronauts Go To the Bathroom in Space? from LiveScience

Astronaut Tips: How to Wash Your Hair in Space from the VideoFromSpace Youtube channel

Health in Space:

The Human Body in Space from NASA

What Happens to the Human Body in Space? from Smithsonian Magazine

The Health Risks of Space Travel from Healthline

Working in Space:

Repair in Space from iFixit.org

7 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Spacewalks from National Geographic

Progressing Toward Interstellar Travel:

The 12 Greatest Challenges For Space Exploration from Wired

10 Technology Innovations Needed For Deep Space Exploration from Science Channel

How Humans Could Go Interstellar, Without Warp Drive from Discover

Artificial Gravity’s Attraction from Aerospace America

Generators:

Planet Generator

Donjon Fractal World Generator

Space Engine Universe Simulator software

Additional Resources:

Fantasy World Building: Star Systems and Other External Influences

Worldbuilding Links and Software (an extensive list of calculators and generators and extra reading for hard sci-fi)

Worldbuilding (more links to various research including physics, cosmology, geography, natives, flora, fauna, and culture)

World Generation: Generic System & Planet Building Resources (a literal book)

Further discussions on planet-building

Literal Books From My Childhood: (Yes, I understood they were outdated in some areas.)

National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Night Sky

The Universe from Life Nature Library

Planets from Life Science Library