The Wongery is a site for information about imaginary worlds. The
core features of the Wongery are the
Central Wongery, a wiki with content created by
the site's owners, and the Public Wongery,
where anyone can post their creations. All of the main content of
these wikis is released under an open license, so anyone can use it
for their own works, subject to the license's conditions.
If you're new here, feel free to browse the Central
Wongery or the Public Wongery, check out
the forum, or read the blog
to see a bit of the site's history.
(Yes, we know the site could really use some illustrations, among other things. The Wongery
is still very much a work in progress.)
Okay, to answer whether or not I've been keeping this resolution, I suppose it's first necessary to define what constitutes "regular" exercise. By "regular", do I mean every single day? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say... as long as I average working out every other day, I'll count that as keeping the resolution. And have I been doing that? I have not! After a strong start to the year, I pretty much completely fell off the first week of February, and only started working out again last week. To be fair, there are reasons for this,...
So, I've still been keeping up with my progress on the City '26 challenge, and I'll have a lot more to say about it in a couple of weeks when it's time for the first of the quarterly updates I promised about my 2026 resolutions. But in the meantime I wanted to discuss one question that's arisen in my mind as I've been working on the challenge. A question... of elves.
I'd said before that one of my reasons for choosing the city of Lüm was because I wanted to further flesh out the world of Curcalen, and that this could give me an impetus for doing so. And I think it has. There are still many questions to be resolved, but at least it's made me aware of them, even if I haven't resolved them yet. I don't know what form of currency is used in Djarvin (or anywhere else on Curcalen), or what language is spoken there (or anywhere else on Curcalen), or what calendar is used there (or anywhere else on Curcalen), and yeah, those are things I really ought to...
In a recent blog post when I analyzed how well I was doing so far with my New Year's resolutions for 2026, I said that I was adding two new resolutions, one of which, a worldbuilding challenge called City '26, I planned to make a place for on the Wongery site within the next week or two. Well, that place has now been made. My work on the City '26 challenge now has its own dedicated blog.
But before I get further into that, what is City '26? I did describe it very briefly in the first post linked above: it's a challenge where "participants create a fictional city over the course of the year, focusing on one area of the city each week, and adding a little information each day according to the prompts provided". Here's a graphic by Pete "Garblag" Lattimore, one of the creators of the challenge, that summarizes the whole thing:
A graphic summarizing the City '26 challenge, created by Pete "Garblag" Lattimore
You can also see more information about the challenge and its participants in...
