necromancers in argument
Mar. 11th, 2023 11:14 pmTwo 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. . . .
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. . . .
Story time can be an issue in the most linear of stories. Time travel, on the other hand --
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seasons pass
Oct. 5th, 2019 11:46 pmSo 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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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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the horror, the horror
Aug. 25th, 2017 10:46 pmWas 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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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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the scrimshaws of space
Apr. 18th, 2016 08:48 pmIf 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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issues in world-building
Apr. 16th, 2016 05:47 pmI have a story idea. It involves a world where there are frequently brawls, sometimes fatal, in the streets.
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the game of time
Dec. 22nd, 2013 11:33 pmRecently read a book in which a girl was told to do something to the count of 500.
I winced.
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I winced.
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Keeping Track of Action
Jan. 22nd, 2013 10:18 pmMy second panel. Which covered everything from fight scenes to parallel plot lines. With some tangents.
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always amateur hour
Dec. 11th, 2012 08:54 pmThe 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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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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tidbits cross time
Sep. 13th, 2012 09:25 pmIn 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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names and other games
Sep. 7th, 2012 09:51 pmIt can be interesting to be generating names for two different stories at about the same time. . . .
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poetry and proverbs
Jun. 18th, 2012 11:40 pmTo 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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Sometimes you want your characters to quote proverbs and recite poetry. This can be a problem.
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Romans walked
May. 20th, 2012 05:42 pm 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.
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.
pondering point-of-view
May. 5th, 2012 11:30 pmRead 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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