Writing Update and a little FYS Trivia

 I've finished editing "Silence and Sword" and submitted it to FurPlanet for consideration in their Reclamation Project: Year One anthology. Also this weekend I should be receiving the contract for "To Catch the Lightning" from Armoured Fox Press for their Swordmasters anthology. With S&S out of the way, that leaves me free to flail... er, work on a personal project. Not sure what I'll do yet. The Visitors needs to be, er, revisited soon, but I need to plot it out better than my usual Pantsing method. Other than that I should work on more FYS shorts, but I need ideas that pan out to longer stories, so I can try and do a new anthology.

Speaking of FYS, noodling out some math concerning the Ring's surface area, at 100,000 km in radius and 1,000 km in width, the surface area of the Ring works out to 63.5 billion square kilometers. Which sounds roomy, but with 15 billion human inhabitants, that works out to 4.233~sq km each, though more practically that's more like 2.1 sq km if you assume at least 50% of the Ring's surface is taken up by bodies of water used for irrigation, recreation, marine habitats, and heat sinks. [1] So everyone can have a castle with a 2,000 square meter kingdom, though in practice most family groupings and neighborhoods will consolidate their dwellings into a more densely packed configurations.

[1] Most agriculture production is probably taken care of in the Ring's interior service spaces, aside from what humans maintain for recreational purposes.