NSW Writers Centre, this weekend

Good news. The workshop I'm taking on Sunday (on using history in fiction, focussed on worldbuilding) is going ahead. There's space, should you still want to attend and haven't quite got round to it. Just visit the NSW Writers' Centre website (click here) and go for it.

It's not going to be a huge class, so it looks as if we ought to be able to discuss some quite specific needs writers have. It's also going to be a lot of fun.

Today my own worldbuilding is all about the Avignon Papacy, though my novel is mostly set in the interregnum period before it. The sad thing about this is that I remember the Great Schism and even bits about the Conciliar Movement, but I can't remember a single Pope joke. Yesterday I was looking at Templar commanderies in the south of France and I don't think I ever knew any Templar jokes. So, no Pope jokes or Templar jokes on Sunday. This is, of course, a matter of great sorrow to me.

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My useful piece of information of the day is that there is actually a plant called Badasse frutescente. It appears to be of the pea family. If anyone knows anything about it, I'd love to find out more.

Yes, this is genuine research. Truly.

PS I found a picture! http://www.afleurdepau.com/Flore/cbla.htm Look under Dorycnie à cinq feuilles