- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-11-01 - status-updated:: - current-status:: #articleseed - [S] Marketing - purpose:: afterword for a potential brute-force ending of [[Civil Mage]], and a process article for the merged newsletters. When I was telling stories to my son, and reading a lot of narrative nonfiction -- and fiction written by newsletter authors better known for their nonfiction, like Scott Alexander %% [[Scott Alexander]] %% -- I realized that I don't really love writing novels, or even short stories in the normal way. I've written about this before, but I care about the story, the point I'm making, the world I'm building, and how it helps me understand the world, more than the actual prose. So let me end Civil Mage %% [[Civil Mage]] %% a little more quickly; by telling the story. %% I can probably get away with this, like, once. Also, it's worthwhile to use the MidJourney bot AI generated image of [[Alem]] maybe as a framing device? %%