It’s the first thing that pops up on Google (on this link). Set it to 100bpm, see how it feels.
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I was a bit anxious at first and quickly wanted to shut it off, but I continued listening for a bit longer then it became oddly soothing in a way.
I do not know how that would affect me in a writing session.
It’s better than being surprised out of it.
Another option is to make a music collection that is long enough for your session, and when it runs out it runs out.
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That’s true.
That is also another good option.
I had to make changes a bit to the worldbuilding of Alagossia that actually makes sense to me.
When it comes to the Shadowlands, things are somewhat frozen in time far as the environment. So, that caused the air to change or rather it caused the First Mist to become so deadly and toxic that a nearby country suffer because of it or a distant country nearby suffers from it too, but less extreme as the country that is closer.
I started thinking a bit on Chernobyl and the radiation.
Yet mine is a bit different since it is fiction.
I could be totally wrong so correct me if I am, but the radiation in Chernobyl is said to last for many, many years and continue to affect the area, right?
How long is that actually? Like hundreds or thousands of years?
How long does “radiation poisoning” last exactly?
In Alagossia, now at least due to changes, the First Mist of a Shadowland will remain toxic forever.
I get that on Earth and in the fictional world, things are different, but I am just curious a bit.
i love the stage of editing where i hate every word on the page (sarcasm)
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Update:
20,000 years?! CHERNOBYL WILL REMAIN RADIOACTIVE FOR 20,000 YEARS?!
Holy shit! That is unreal!
What would life even be like in twenty-thousand years?!
I can’t even fathom that in all honesty. Will humans even be around by then, because that is a very long ass time?
In Alagossia it is much worse because it is millions of years of remaining “radioactive” due to the First Mist changing because of the Total Cleansing and that if the Shadowland gotten a Total Cleansing/Purge.
Holy Shit! I get that nobody lives there, but 20,000 years of staying radioactive is just bonkers to me!
The only “people” who can survive in a Shadowland are deities and things of that nature. An ordinary Alagossian mortal will not last in a Shadowland, regardless of living in a highly dense location of First Mist or being immortal.
Sorry, for getting way too into this, it is just still unreal to me.
Meanwhile, Fukushima is just a hundred years of remaining radioactive.
Sheesh!
I just realized how bonkers the borders are in Alagossia.
Depending on the continent, most of the countries are so close together, that driving to another country is just so possible or even walking there too.
The only way you can get to another country by sea or air, is if it is really far or in another continent.
So, if you wanted you live in one nation and wanted to go to another nation that is close by, you can drive there for a few hours, or walk there in a few minutes.
That is how crazy the borders are. The border control in Alagossia doesn’t even exist which is bizarre to me.
Like, if you live in a nation like Kenorland and you just happened to walk to closer nation like Norboria, nobody would say anything about other than “oh wow, a Norborian, welcome!” then go about their business.
I love and find it so amusing that people can drive to or walk to another country like it is nothing.
The even crazier part is that the nations of Alagossia are the sizes of the continents on Earth, while the continents the countries reside in are like three times or more bigger than Pangaea.
So, imagine that now, if you can?!
I just find it weird but fun. LOL!
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Why not create a map of your world so you can get a better idea of scale and distances, etc.? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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I shall check it out later.
Honestly, I thought you would comment on my slight disbelief over the radioactive Chernobyl.
I am still reeling over that…
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No, your reaction makes sense since you’re not a big reader. You’ve never read any books about Chernobyl or the half life of plutonium or anything like that, have you? Most of us haven’t. I did research on it once for a previous book, since I had an elementary school hundreds of years in the future affected by a superfund site of today. It’s a truly scary reality we all conveniently ignore! We really need to shut down all the nuclear plants in the world and destroy all the ICBMs, but of course that would be the sensible thing to do, so we’re not going to do it. Too many megacorporations would lose money. Argh. (-᷅_-᷄๑)
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Nope, never, I don’t even remember being taught that in my school days.
I learn a bit about Chernobyl as I gotten older and that wasn’t much.
Still, the fact that it will take Chernobyl 20,000 years to get to a point where it can be livable again is just outrageous to me!
Like even after that, the entire city will have to go through massive renovations to be a habitable place again.
The amount of money and time it would take to fix that place is mind blowing.
Then you have to wonder if it is even worth going back there.
Isn’t that a prime example of “we made a mistake that could’ve been prevented” though?
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And that’s just one disaster. Then there’s Three Mile Island and all the others. The more we use nuclear power, the more toxic the world becomes. Not to mention, the increase in the possibility of terrorist attacks on nuclear reactors. Frightening!
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I do remember hearing about the Fukushima one though.
That might have been talked about on the news at one point.
Yet, Chernobyl is a topic that most people probably don’t remember that much, since it happened in 1986.
Still, the people who know of it are either deceased or close to it or something else entirely.
You’d think people like that would be smart and learn from mistakes that greatly affected the lives of the people who were just victims of an unfortunate incident, right?!
Nah, that’s too much for some people to do.
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I had zero idea that even happened. Granted I wasn’t born at that time, but I don’t even remember ever learning about it in school or hearing about now.
Actually, I never was taught that in school. I had no idea that happened.
This is some alarming stuff!
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I’d honestly be surprised if they taught things like that in school. They definitely won’t in the future if Ron DeSantis becomes president. (⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)
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God, things like that make you wonder about the future generations!
Good lord.
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So I’ve decided to bench, pause, “trash” The Vanishing. I’m working on a new story that I really want to finish this time. I have always had issues with finishing a story every damn time. So I hope to finish this story.
It’s a dark fantasy romance.
Faeries, illegal substances, abuse possibly, etc. And I’m just hoping to finish this story and just post it on Wattpad. Have people read it. And perhaps, publish it? I don’t know. Right now I’m in the plotting and planning stages. I’m figuring out the setting, the point in time it happens or takes place. The characters. I’m figuring it all out but I’m loving this.
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So you think Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were good for the environment? Interesting…