Hello to all my readers! I promise, the Weekly Chrononaut is not dead. It's just been in hibernation as I've been so busy wrapping up my FINAL semester at university (now less than 11 days until graduation!!).
I just wanted to let you know of a few things I'm working on and hoping to have released very soon (sometime in mid-May):
- The (temporary) Conclusion of "Silent Night." I've nearly finished Part 6, and that will be the final update for the immediate future. It will wrap up WWI and set the stage for the post war world. I will most likely revisit that world sometime in the future, but I want to get that story to a stopping point and work on some of my other projects I have going.
- Arcadia Springs/Chamber Chronicles: I first mentioned this early in November as a potential project. My goal is to have a first story out sometime in May. I've been hammering out the back story, and hope to have something for you to read soon.
- Titanic Colony: This is a story I started some time ago, and my siblings have been pestering me to do more with it. I think I'll start sharing that story shortly. This is a bit of sci-fi mixed in with alternate history. It's essentially a world building project. I won't give much more away for now.
Also, I've set up a Facebook page to allow people to connect and interact with the blog through that site. In addition to posting links to new posts, I hope to conduct polls there and do other alternate history-related posts and discussions.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy what's coming in the future.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Status Update
Hello to all my readers! I just wanted to make a quick post to let you know that I hadn't fallen off the face of the Earth (or into an alternate universe). I've been very busy with student teaching, so I've had nowhere near the amount of free time that I had last fall when I started this blog. I've FINALLY started working on Part 6 of Silent Night, and I hope to have that out by....well, to be safe I won't set a date yet. If I get the time and the inspiration, I could have it done in the next month. Or it could take longer.
In addition, I've also been mulling over some other ideas for stories that hopefully will see the light of day on this blog sooner or later. And for those who might be wondering, I haven't given up on the idea for "Arcadia Springs" either, it just got moved to the creative back burner by other projects, including Silent Night.
Well, that's all for now. Hopefully you'll see more original work on this blog very shortly. I miss being on here!
In addition, I've also been mulling over some other ideas for stories that hopefully will see the light of day on this blog sooner or later. And for those who might be wondering, I haven't given up on the idea for "Arcadia Springs" either, it just got moved to the creative back burner by other projects, including Silent Night.
Well, that's all for now. Hopefully you'll see more original work on this blog very shortly. I miss being on here!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Time Traveling through Photography
Hello to all my readers. Work is still on going on the next update of Silent Night. As to when said update will be up for you to enjoy, all I can say right now is "soon, hopefully." Student teaching is definitely keeping me busy, but I have found some time to write, and it is my hope that I can get you the next update, and maybe some other articles and stories, posted for your enjoyment in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you this amazing gem I discovered the other day thanks to social media.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to look at the past "in living color," as the phrase goes? I for one have often said that I would love to travel back in time, not to change the past, but just for the opportunity to see it for myself in the bright and real hues that we are used to seeing in the every day. At best, we get a glimpse of the past through the dull (though sometimes quite artistic) limitations of black and white. And that's only for the past hundred years, 150 at best. Before that all we have are paintings, artistic representations of the past that don't always do reality justice. Well, the other day, I discovered the following two websites that present more than a dozen images taken in Paris between 1910 and 1940, all with a type of color photography that was actually copyrighted in 1903. I was amazed to see vivid, high quality photographs of Parisian street scenes from before the First World War, or the the Eiffel tower decorated and illuminated during the inter-war years in beautiful yellow and blue lights. There were pictures of the victory celebrations outside the Paris city hall in 1918, the building bedecked with the red-white-blue of the French tricolor flag. When you first see some of these pictures, you think, "surely these are snapshots taken from some movie set," because they look so life-like that you think it's impossible for them to be 100 years old. But then you really start looking and realize....these are the real deal.
So, without further adieu, here are the links. The first website just has the pictures all listed together, without any caption or information. The second website, where the first website borrowed the images from, posted these pictures individually as separate posts with date and locations, so it takes a bit longer to go through the posts, but there is more information for you.
website 1
website 2
(on this website, you'll have to click on the pictures to find out the place and date it was taken)
Enjoy!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to look at the past "in living color," as the phrase goes? I for one have often said that I would love to travel back in time, not to change the past, but just for the opportunity to see it for myself in the bright and real hues that we are used to seeing in the every day. At best, we get a glimpse of the past through the dull (though sometimes quite artistic) limitations of black and white. And that's only for the past hundred years, 150 at best. Before that all we have are paintings, artistic representations of the past that don't always do reality justice. Well, the other day, I discovered the following two websites that present more than a dozen images taken in Paris between 1910 and 1940, all with a type of color photography that was actually copyrighted in 1903. I was amazed to see vivid, high quality photographs of Parisian street scenes from before the First World War, or the the Eiffel tower decorated and illuminated during the inter-war years in beautiful yellow and blue lights. There were pictures of the victory celebrations outside the Paris city hall in 1918, the building bedecked with the red-white-blue of the French tricolor flag. When you first see some of these pictures, you think, "surely these are snapshots taken from some movie set," because they look so life-like that you think it's impossible for them to be 100 years old. But then you really start looking and realize....these are the real deal.
So, without further adieu, here are the links. The first website just has the pictures all listed together, without any caption or information. The second website, where the first website borrowed the images from, posted these pictures individually as separate posts with date and locations, so it takes a bit longer to go through the posts, but there is more information for you.
website 1
website 2
(on this website, you'll have to click on the pictures to find out the place and date it was taken)
Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Blog Update 1/8/2013
Hello and Happy New Years to all my readers! I hope you all have had a great and restful holiday season and are having a good start to the new year. The blog saw a lot of views at the first of the year, and for January 2013 there has already been 300 page views (bringing the total page views up to over 1500)! To all those who've been reading and enjoying these stories and random historical facts, thank you for stopping by and taking a look around. I hope that you like what you see.
This spring promises to be very busy for me, since this will be my final semester before I graduate from University. As some of you may know, I'm studying to be a history teacher, and this semester I will be doing my student teaching (for those of you unfamiliar with what that is, it's essentially an internship, where I will be working in a classroom with a regular teacher and their students for the semester, finally getting to take all the things I've learned at University and put them to work.). I'm really excited about what all this will entail, but it also means that I may not have as much time to write on my stories or other history posts on this blog. My goal is to have another update for Silent Night posted by the end of the weekend, and from there on trying to have one or two updates on that story a month, more if I get the time and inspiration. I promise, I won't abandon the story or leave you hanging for months on end, but I wont be able to get out an update or two a week like I've sometimes been able to pull off. I start back at my University tomorrow, and the actual student teaching starts on January 14th, and will last until the beginning of May, so just stick with me during this busy period and this summer I will have much more time to write.
Again, a heartfelt thank you to all my readers and fans and friends who've been such an encouragement. I look forward to writing more stories for you to enjoy.
--Zach
This spring promises to be very busy for me, since this will be my final semester before I graduate from University. As some of you may know, I'm studying to be a history teacher, and this semester I will be doing my student teaching (for those of you unfamiliar with what that is, it's essentially an internship, where I will be working in a classroom with a regular teacher and their students for the semester, finally getting to take all the things I've learned at University and put them to work.). I'm really excited about what all this will entail, but it also means that I may not have as much time to write on my stories or other history posts on this blog. My goal is to have another update for Silent Night posted by the end of the weekend, and from there on trying to have one or two updates on that story a month, more if I get the time and inspiration. I promise, I won't abandon the story or leave you hanging for months on end, but I wont be able to get out an update or two a week like I've sometimes been able to pull off. I start back at my University tomorrow, and the actual student teaching starts on January 14th, and will last until the beginning of May, so just stick with me during this busy period and this summer I will have much more time to write.
Again, a heartfelt thank you to all my readers and fans and friends who've been such an encouragement. I look forward to writing more stories for you to enjoy.
--Zach
Monday, December 24, 2012
Blog Update 12/24/2012
Hello to all my readers, and a Merry Christmas Eve to you as well. I hope you're enjoying your holiday season as much as I am. With all the holiday events, I've not been able to work on the next update for Silent Night, but I am hoping to have a new update out before New Years.
I've been really excited this week. There have been record views on the Weekly Chrononaut, and on saturday afternoon the view count exceeded 1,000 views, currently sitting at 1,056 as I type up this post. In addition, this week has seen daily views staying consecutively in between 20-40 views, with two record highs, hitting 131 views on December 18th, and 70 views on December 21st.
It's been very exciting to see readership go up, and I hope to continue to put out new and interesting content to see this trend continue. A special thanks to my fellow writer's who have been very encouraging when talking with me and also having been kind enough to help me get my work out to more and more people. I hope to feature some of their work on here soon as a way of saying thank you, and also to share their excellent work with those of my readers who haven't been introduced to them yet. More thanks are also in order for my family, who have been very supportive of this project and have been kind enough to read all my stories that I've posted so far.
Well, the sun is setting here in the MidWest, and I will have things to do with my family before too long. So to all my readers, whether you're family, friends, fellow writers, or fans of alternate history, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and happy holiday season, and I hope to have a new update for you soon.
I've been really excited this week. There have been record views on the Weekly Chrononaut, and on saturday afternoon the view count exceeded 1,000 views, currently sitting at 1,056 as I type up this post. In addition, this week has seen daily views staying consecutively in between 20-40 views, with two record highs, hitting 131 views on December 18th, and 70 views on December 21st.
It's been very exciting to see readership go up, and I hope to continue to put out new and interesting content to see this trend continue. A special thanks to my fellow writer's who have been very encouraging when talking with me and also having been kind enough to help me get my work out to more and more people. I hope to feature some of their work on here soon as a way of saying thank you, and also to share their excellent work with those of my readers who haven't been introduced to them yet. More thanks are also in order for my family, who have been very supportive of this project and have been kind enough to read all my stories that I've posted so far.
Well, the sun is setting here in the MidWest, and I will have things to do with my family before too long. So to all my readers, whether you're family, friends, fellow writers, or fans of alternate history, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and happy holiday season, and I hope to have a new update for you soon.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Blog Update 11/30/12
Hello to all my readers! Just wanted to touch base with everyone, and let you know I haven't forgot about the blog. Here's a status update about projects I'm working on and hoping to get off the ground soon.
The Chamber Chronicles: I originally promised to have this story started by Thanksgiving weekend, however that obviously did not occur. I'm still working on some details on that story before I can really hit the ground running with it so I'm not quite sure when the first episode of the CC will be posted here on the Chrononaut. I would still love to here from some of you for character ideas for the story if you have any.
Silent Night: I'm excited to announce I'm working on developing a new timeline that will have it's start involving a Christmas theme. I don't want go give much away yet, but this story will start in the early 1900s, and will have a format similar to that of the Airship President/Legacy story (in other words, it will be written as a series of clips from books and newspapers from within the timeline itself).
The First Thanksgiving: I hope you enjoyed that spur of the moment short story that I wrote to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. It was a fun reversal of our own history, that I found enjoyable to write and speculate about. If you didn't get a chance to read this three part story yet, go check it out! Here are the links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
In addition to these stories, be checking back periodically, because I plan on reviewing some podcasts that I really enjoy that relate to both real and alternate history, and that I think my readers will enjoy and would love to pass along to you.
Thanks for reading!
The Chamber Chronicles: I originally promised to have this story started by Thanksgiving weekend, however that obviously did not occur. I'm still working on some details on that story before I can really hit the ground running with it so I'm not quite sure when the first episode of the CC will be posted here on the Chrononaut. I would still love to here from some of you for character ideas for the story if you have any.
Silent Night: I'm excited to announce I'm working on developing a new timeline that will have it's start involving a Christmas theme. I don't want go give much away yet, but this story will start in the early 1900s, and will have a format similar to that of the Airship President/Legacy story (in other words, it will be written as a series of clips from books and newspapers from within the timeline itself).
The First Thanksgiving: I hope you enjoyed that spur of the moment short story that I wrote to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. It was a fun reversal of our own history, that I found enjoyable to write and speculate about. If you didn't get a chance to read this three part story yet, go check it out! Here are the links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
In addition to these stories, be checking back periodically, because I plan on reviewing some podcasts that I really enjoy that relate to both real and alternate history, and that I think my readers will enjoy and would love to pass along to you.
Thanks for reading!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Blog Update
Hello everyone. Just wanted to touch base with all the readers. I hope you've been enjoying what I've posted so far and are looking forward to more articles and stories in the future.
I'd love to know what you would like to see more of. Do you want more stories? Do you enjoy the "random facts" articles that I've posted (such as the one on daylight savings time or Guy Fawkes Day)? Have an idea for something else? Please, PLEASE, let me know! You can comment bellow or contact me on facebook.
So, I'm still working on the Chamber Chronicles series. I'm behind schedule, so I probably won't have the first "episode" out until around Thanksgiving (next week for my non-American readers that are out there). Still working on some of the backstory and some of the characters. The setting is more or less done though. Hopefully I can get everything nailed down soon. By the way, I'd love to hear suggestions for characters in this story. So if you have any ideas, let me know!
I'd love to know what you would like to see more of. Do you want more stories? Do you enjoy the "random facts" articles that I've posted (such as the one on daylight savings time or Guy Fawkes Day)? Have an idea for something else? Please, PLEASE, let me know! You can comment bellow or contact me on facebook.
So, I'm still working on the Chamber Chronicles series. I'm behind schedule, so I probably won't have the first "episode" out until around Thanksgiving (next week for my non-American readers that are out there). Still working on some of the backstory and some of the characters. The setting is more or less done though. Hopefully I can get everything nailed down soon. By the way, I'd love to hear suggestions for characters in this story. So if you have any ideas, let me know!
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