ah, colors

Jan. 4th, 2024 11:56 pm
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Character's looking at a flame and thinking it's darker a shade of orange than it should be.

It's the orange of -- 

Took me some time to decide that it was the color of hot metal.  Something about a distinct lack of dark orange things that our hero would know.
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Two necromancers in argument.  Chiefly over whose job it is to keep the king alive this week.

But, being conceited, it rapidly turns into an argument about whose magic is superior or inferior and I'm thinking of a meme of a movie dub where someone didn't know "necromancer" and called the character a "zombie wrangler."

Well, there are no zombies here, but I'm thinking of insults on that vein.  Shorter because they get flung around a lot. . . .
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Story time can be an issue in the most linear of stories. Time travel, on the other hand --

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So in the  story, years pass as the heroine finishes growing up.  

And she's in a situation where they would celebrate festivities, even with more religious emphasis than most places.  So what is there?

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Was philosophically contemplating how hard it would be to convey to most readers how horrible some things were in past years. So that they could really enter into the dread of and danger for the characters. (And get some realism in it.)

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moon time

Jul. 21st, 2017 09:44 pm
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It's a classic of the planetary romance genre, to have a few moons floating about the sky, just so you know it's not Earth.

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If space is an ocean -- which is the commonest metaphor -- what are the sailors doing while sailing the spaceways?  Especially if we have no FTL communications (or at any rate, none faster than the ships.)  Making scrimshaws?
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I have a story idea.  It involves a world where there are frequently brawls, sometimes fatal, in the streets.

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Recently read a book in which a girl was told to do something to the count of 500.

I winced.

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My second panel.  Which covered everything from fight scenes to parallel plot lines.  With some tangents.
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The first guy who seriously composed for the string quartet was Joseph Haydn.  His employer, a man who could hire a composer and an orchestra, nevertheless wanted a piece of music specific to the four instrument that he and his three guests played.

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For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true.
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
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In forest law there were two types of offenses:  against vert, chopping down trees for clearing, and against venison, poaching.  Robin Hood ballads talk only of the second.

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It can be interesting to be generating names for two different stories at about the same time. . . .

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To expand from the comments on the allusions post. . . .

Sometimes you want your characters to quote proverbs and recite poetry.  This can be a problem.

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 A review of a book about Romans and how they walked.

The intriguing aspect is perhaps speaking of the noble gait rather than the noble bearing of a man.  A feminine walk, a masculine work.  That would be an interesting thing to put into a work, and tricky to convey.  Though I don't think it would serve a purpose other than making the world very different, it would certainly do that.
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Read a writing exercise about what you like and dislike in fiction.  Was thinking about what I like and dislike in points of view.

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