#97: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, with KC Woodruff

The Cru is joined by author KC Woodruff for a chat about her approach to worldbuilding, memes, and all sorts of authorial mayhem. Stories begin around the 24:30 mark and include a plant lady who is overgrown with plants; learning to cope with winter; a love letter; and a guy who hates gardens. You can, and should, follow KC on Instagram, X, and TikTok.  From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The. A square garden (according to Diodorus Siculus (c.40 BC)), 400ft (122m) each way, rising in a series of terraces and provided with earth to a sufficient depth to accommodate trees of a great size. Water was raised from the Euphrates by a screw, and the gardens were irrigated from a reservoir at the top. These famous gardens, one of the SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD, were said to have been built by Queen SEMIRAMIS and by NEBUCHADNEZZAR, to gratify his wife Amytis, who felt weary of the flat plains of Babylon and longed for something to remind her of her native Median hills. They may have been associated with the great ziggurat of Babylon.  Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.