Welcome to the Wongery!
The Wongery is a site for information about imaginary worlds. The
core features of the Wongery are the
Central Wongery, a wiki with content created by
the site's owners, and the Public Wongery,
where anyone can post their creations. All of the main content of
these wikis is released under an open license, so anyone can use it
for their own works, subject to the license's conditions.
Furthermore, aside from the description of the world, there are pages
devoted to additional applications, including RPG statistics, LEGO
models, and more.
If you're new here, feel free to browse the Central
Wongery or the Public Wongery, check out
the forum, or read the blog
to see a bit of the site's history.
(Yes, we know the site could really use some illustrations, among other things. The Wongery
is still very much a work in progress.)
Welp. I had intended to participate in the Event Formerly Known As NaNoWriMo again this year, but... well it just didn't happen. Okay, it sort of barely and abortively happened in that I did write an utterly negligible two hundred and thirteen words on November 21, but yeah, that's hardly even worth mentioning.
So what went wrong?
Well. My original plan was to write the first fifty thousand words of a multivolume epic set in the world of Curcalen. However, there was a lot of preparatory work that I wanted to get done first. I wanted to get some more development done on the world of Curcalen, especially the particular continent where I had decided the epic would be set; I hoped by the time November came around I'd even have gotten around to rewriting and expanding the Curcalen article, as I'm gradually doing with all the old articles. And of course I hoped to have some planning done for the story itself, to have worked out the major characters...
In the previous blog post[1], I mentioned that I intended to participate in the WorldAnvil Spooktober event again this year—assuming there was such an event again. Well, almost immediately after making that post, I checked the WorldAnvil site—that was on October 25, and last year the event had run through the 26th, so time was short.
Not quite so short as I thought, as it turned out. Yes, there was a 2025 Spooktober event, but this time it ran through November 1. I had plenty of time. Or at least, I had a...
- ↑ I seem to fairly often begin blog posts with recaps of what was in previous blog posts. Should I start by saying something like "Previously, on the Wongery blog", like an old TV series with an ongoing serialized story? No, I probably shouldn't, for several reasons. Anyway, I'm not going to do that.
I wrote much of this post (these first few paragraphs obviously excluded) almost six weeks ago, and then, when it was nearly complete, decided not to finish it and post it because it may give too many hints as to my real identity. But on further consideration... that's silly. Sure, I do kind of want to keep my real identity a secret, and yes, to that end I have tried not to mention anything that would allow readers to narrow it down too much[1], but I don't think I really ought to be too obsessive about avoiding anything that could possibly provide a lead. First, even if I do accidentally drop some unintended clues, nobody is going to care about my identity...
- ↑ Which is not of course to say I've necessarily succeeded; it is definitely possible that I have in fact mentioned something in one of these blog posts that completely gives away my identity, because, well, I am not very bright.
