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December 20, 2016 at 8:45 pm #23048
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I know some of you better than you know me, thanks to my stalking Kingdom Pen for about the last year. Hopefully that isnāt a creepy introduction? Hope introduced me to KP, but it took a while for me to get around to actually joining.
Things you should know about me, other than that Iām a creepy writer:
ā Iām bad at introductions. I have been known to forget my name on occasion when faced with having to tell people about myself.
ā Iām a conservative Christian going to a secular college, majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Philosophy. If I werenāt already the contrary child, Iād have learned to be, but fortunately Iāve met quite a few people who donāt mind debating things.
ā Iām in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a worldwide historical re-reaction organization divided into twenty kingdoms. Weāve been around for fifty years (as a whole; Iām not that old myself). Our period spans (roughly) the fall of Rome to 1600. I do Anglo-Saxon stuff. (One of the things this means is that I ramble on a lot about historical things very few other people are at all interested in.)
ā I like to quote things. Sometimes that drives people nuts.
ā Iām an INTP with the imagination of an INFP and the social tendencies of an INTJ.
ā As a general rule, I donāt care for allegories.
ā Iāve done NaNo and Camp NaNo once each, and I have several novels and short(ish) stories in various stages of being. Iām hoping to be traditionally published someday, but I havenāt really started the process of actively looking yet.
ā Iāve been called a wild card, certifiably insane, and a salty old maid, among other less memorable nicknames. I happen to like the old maid one.
ā I finally conceded to the marketing side of things enough to start a blog: Of Dreams and Swords.
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December 20, 2016 at 9:13 pm #23051@Northerner You sound like a fascinating person. For real.
I stalked a long time too. We must be a team. š
Does your ānameā have anything to do with Strider?
And I love this bit:
(One of the things this means is that I ramble on a lot about historical things very few other people are at all interested in.)
š I donāt ramble about it a lot, but I love obscure little history things.
December 20, 2016 at 9:16 pm #23052Oh and by the way, huge welcome. š Glad @Hope has her wish now, for both of your sakes. Youāll love being on here. š
December 20, 2016 at 9:31 pm #23055@Northerner Welcome to the bestiest place on the internet! YES! I got to say it. Though whether I spelled it right is another matterā¦ So glad you are finally here! Youāll have fun. š
INTJ - Inhumane. No-feelings. Terrible. Judgment and doom on everyone.
December 20, 2016 at 9:33 pm #23056@northerner Fantastic! Now I can write an anglo saxon novel and continually bug you about it. Iāll have to do that some time. I like bugging people.
Welcome, welcome, to the bestistest place on the internet. At least, I guess itās only just now becoming the bestistest place not the internet, because it appears that Hope was only half fulfilled in her inner soul before, which must have been a drain on her social interaction.
Iām glad to meet you and keep up on all the cool projects.
Oh, which reminds me, whatās your current writing project?
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December 20, 2016 at 9:43 pm #23059@Northerner Welcome to Kingdom Pen! š The (as it has been said) bestistest place on the interwebz! Iāve been here for about two weeks and Iām still finding that out in the various forums, articles and videos KP has to offer.
āOne of the things this means is that I ramble on a lot about historical things very few other people are at all interested in.ā
Let me introduce myself as one of the few who may be interested in your historical rambles! š The Society for Creative Anachronism sounds so interesting, could you tell me more about it? šWhat genres do you like to write in, and what are some of the things youāve written?
āI like to quote things. Sometimes that drives people nuts.ā
I, too, like to quote things ā namely books, movies, things like that ā have you seen The Princess Bride? That would have to be the #1 quoted movie in this house. šCurrently reading Les Miserables
December 21, 2016 at 12:31 am #23066certifiably insane
Yep. I think weāll get along just fine. Glad you finally got around to joining! š I stalked for a long time myselfā¦
Do you have any favorite books, movies, plays, or other forms of literature?
Anyway, welcome to bestitest place on the interweb. šDecember 21, 2016 at 1:37 am #23068Hi, @Northerner! Iām so glad you decided to join! Oh, please do ramble. History is one of my very favorite things, and Anglo-Saxon history even more. I will not be bored. š
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December 21, 2016 at 9:41 am #23078Anonymous- Rank: Eccentric Mentor
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@Northerner Welcome fellow writer! Glad you finally came out of the shadows. š
Iām hoping to be traditionally published someday, but I havenāt really started the process of actively looking yet.
Iām in the same boat, Northerner.
December 21, 2016 at 11:01 am #23079Emma, my name doesnāt intentionally have a connection with Strider, though it wouldnāt surprise me if something did slip in. Tolkien has influenced me a lot.
Iāll just say obscure historical things are fun, and leave it at that, before I do start rambling.Daeus, were you actually going to write an Anglo-Saxon novel? Feel free to bug me. I have lists and lists of sources for you to look up.
And Iām pretty sure Hope was doing just fine as far as social interaction goes. . .
Current writing project. . . hmm. Well, Iām technically on Christmas break right now, but it hasnāt been much of a vacation yet. Does the church clerkās job of copying meeting notes into the Record Book count? Itās not a very interesting project though. Iāve sort of got several, but Iām not actively writing anything at the moment. Some are stewing and some are going through halfhearted revision. The one thatās nearest to being currently in progress is one of the English stories, set in early seventh-century Northumbria. I donāt have a short āpitchā for it yet. Itās mostly about the main character growing up between two worlds, because Christianity is just starting to influence northern England. (It think thatās the shortest explanation of it Iāve yet managed.)PerfectFifths, the SCA (which is what itās called for short, not to be confused with Student Conservation Association or Sudden Cardiac Arrest) can be described lots of different ways. Officially, itās for the purpose of educating people about medieval history through hands-on learning ā so instead of lectures, youāre making things and doing things, everything from pottery to cheese to armoured combat to garb (which is clothes from somewhere in period, as opposed to vaguely-medieval-looking-costumes) to dancing to calligraphy. Basically if you have a hobby you can find its period equivalent in the SCA, and people who will be eager to help you with it. Weāre also a bunch of introverts getting together and making a lot of noise. We have twenty kingdoms with royalty, though itās not hereditary, but the Crown is won by right of arms. Youāll get new rulers every four to seven months depending on which kingdom youāre in. Weāre not re-enactors, we re-create the Middle Ages, only without the inconveniences of religious wars and bubonic plague. We do have wars, though, where people try to kill their friends without hurting them. Thereās a website for the entire Society here: http://www.sca.org. Each kingdom also has a website. You can look up which kingdom youāre in.
āWhat genres do you like to write in, and what are some of the things youāve written?ā
Oh dear, not this question. I play with several genres, mostly fantasy and historical fiction and nonfiction stories. Iām also considering writing an apologetics book eventually, since lately Iāve had so many conversations with postmodernists and Iām not finding a single book wherewith to refute the ideas.
Yes, the Princess Bride! We quote it all the time.
By the way, my sister is a musician too. She plays violin and piano and has picked up recorder, guitar, and harp at various times, and sings.Jess, donāt ask me to pick a favourite book. I did grow up in a house with several thousand books. The most recently-discovered favourite is Pendragonās Heir by Suzannah Rowntree. I like old books, usually the older the better. (And āoldā includes things like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.)
Sarah, really? Any particular period during the Anglo-Saxon era? I tend toward the seventh and eleventh centuries. People who are actually interested in that part of the Dark Ages are rare, perhaps because history textbooks tend to skip over those centuries (which is annoying).
Thanks for all the welcomes, everybody!
December 21, 2016 at 11:32 am #23080@Northerner Beowulf! Yes!!! And Sir Gawain and the Green Knightā YES! And Anglo-Saxon historyā YES. All that stuff is amazing. And the SCA sounds really fun.
Questionā have you read āBeyond Sing the Woodsā, by Trygve Gulbransson? Itās a really old book, and Norse, not Anglo-Saxon, but I really like it.
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@northerner Well, I do happen to be an Alfred the great fanatic, so Iāve considered writing about him at some point, but it probably wouldnāt be for at least two or three years.
Iām glad youāre into historical fiction. I love the genre and would probably write mostly in it if I didnāt find the research aspect so daunting.
Thatās cool you get to talk with postmodernists. Iām kinda surprised there arenāt any good books you can find on the subject though. Have you ever checked out Schaffer or Rushdooney? Iāve only read Shaffer myself, but I know they both teach presuppositional apologetics. itās simple approach that applies to pretty much any worldview.
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December 21, 2016 at 11:41 am #23083I hadnāt heard of Beyond Sing the Woods before, but I looked it up. It does look interesting.
You probably know Tolkien translated Beowulf? We have his, and Seamus Heaneyās. I had a British Literature class last semester and we got to read Beowulf, among other things. So much fun :).
December 21, 2016 at 12:01 pm #23084@Daeus
Have you read Chestertonās Ballad of the White Horse? Itās an epic poem he wrote about Alfred the Great. I discovered it last semester when I had to memorize a poem for school and was searching for something to say. Itās long, but worth it. Though I donāt know why Iām warning you about length when you like the Count of Monte Cristo.Research is fun. I mean, it does get daunting when youāre researching a time and place we know next to nothing about, and having to rely on somewhat educated guesses and conjectures for information, but chasing down all the rabbit trails and interconnected things can be rewarding. If nothing else, you end up with a lot of random fun things to know.
I didnāt say I couldnāt find any good books on postmodernism, but that I couldnāt find a single book that took care of all the problems with that worldview. When speaking to a postmodernist, I could recommend half a dozen books to read, but they donāt all have that patience, so having just one that lays out, clearly and thoroughly, exactly where they go wrong and why and how, would be nice. Iām thinking it might also be helpful, for this generation, to know the ins and outs of postmodernism and the flaws in its foundation and the chinks in its armour, so as to be better able to counter the rank insanity that it is. Over the summer, some younger folk from our church, taught by my father, went through a book of Five Views on Apologetics, and learned a lot that way. Weāve since gotten a number of surprising opportunities to exercise the various methods. I like the Evidentialist method myself, but for postmodernism, no amount of evidence is going to change anything. Presuppositional apologetics work quite nicely, and the Socratic method is invaluable.
It can be a lot of fun to tear apart peopleās ways of looking at the world. Sometimes itās awfully discouraging when they just wonāt see, but occasionally you come across someone who takes you seriously, or who even (and this is a great gift and rare) believes in absolute, knowable truth ā that makes my job a whole lot easier. Because Iām a Christian minoring in Philosophy at a secular university, I get to know a lot of odd people. Debates about abortion and creation versus evolution are probably the commonest.
I donāt mean to give the impression that Iām the only Christian at my school, though. Iāve made some Christian friends there, one of whom is a Philosophy major (but sadly heās done after this semester), and a Christian, and a young-earth Creationist. We met in a Logic class taught by a Subjectivist, which is weird.
That was a really long post. Hopefully you donāt mind my geeking out about these things. Theyāre a hobby of mine, if you canāt tell.
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