Christine Eaton

@Mark-Kamibaya *nods vigorously*

@Daeus well he was really minor so that’s no surprise. And you didn’t pick on him, so really, he doesn’t dislike you.
Which is the closest he ever gets to liking anyone. So you’re gonna be fine, I promise. He hates me, and that’s… interesting.

@Corissa-Maiden-of-Praise I meant more, have you ever just flat out said ‘”Such and such a character…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy That’s why I love soundtracks. It makes you relive the experience. And for me it kind of plugs the energy of the movie into whatever scene you’re writing (thus my use of Time from Inception during my death scenes).

@Daeus Ciaran doesn’t want to watch anything about the king of anything unless that king is Dolan. He’s…yeah. And you can give YouTube?? Wow.
Personally though, I think the cabin guests would rather just call us…like they do. Same or less amount of time, especially if you don’t have wifi in your cabin. 😛

@dragon-snapper You’re welcome

Okay. He was raised by a cult. Not the occult. Just being clear there. Occult is like satanic stuff.

Wow! He was raised by a cult! Laughing at myself now.

Paolini was raised by the Church Universal and Triumphant. It’s a cult in Paradise Valley, Montana. However, it’s pretty interesting (in a bad way). It focuses on the relationship between humans and past Ascended Masters (Jesus, Sanat Kamara etc.) So I can see how that influenced his…[Read more]

@Kate-Flournoy I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand the question… you mean you quote your characters and other people don’t get it because the book isn’t published yet?

Here’s a question @anne-of-lothlorien requested I ask, word for word.

“Have you ever asked your imaginary counterpart in your mind why you talk to him/her? I did the other day,…[Read more]

And I haven’t seen any evidence of Paolini’s occult background. Personally, the magic in Eragon didn’t seem too bad. I could compare it to Lord of the Rings. But if Paolini is indeed influenced by the occult (which would be easy for a fantasy writer) I still woulnd’t see that as evidence that the occult themes are prevalent in his writings.

And this shows why Paolini seems a bit cliche in the story.

Copied off of Wikipedia:

Paolini’s literary inspirations include the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison as well as the epic poem Beowulf.[4] Paolini said that Eragon was “specifically inspired” by Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, by Bruce Coville.[10] Other literary influences…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy

That diagnosis would align well with my past symptoms. I do find myself paying attention to the story structure and themes a bit more than character dichotomy and relationship ties.

@ethryndal
Greetings, elf. It is not often we meet one of the fair people. In fact, we’ve not had an elf for a millennia, not that I would know. I’m a dragonling, but not quite as big as Smaug and not as small as @kate-flournoy. No, I’m about the size of the average Night Fury (and that’s saying something, seeing as there is only one Night Fury)…[Read more]

@Daeus Meh…who knows if they look at the manuals. Some of them, probably. Guess we don’t really have that much of a prob about it…just seems when we do, what they’re asking was already explained on the manual. 😛

@writefury Glad you’re back. One of the first people on the forum, I think . . .

Ha! But unfortunately you’ve already met him, and fortunately he didn’t take any extreme disliking to you, and unfortunately again this world does not have WD-40, which is suppose is irrelevant now.
@Daeus

And for this topic… sometimes I forget my characters aren’t really there. I mean, not REALLY forget, but I’ll just be talking and some…[Read more]

WD40 for a ransom!! That’s great. It wouldn’t work with Ciaran.

Osmosis!! I was learning about that recently! 😀
Oh sorry…I thought you’d met Ciaran.

Hmmm… @Daeus could we get Conrad to write manuals for our cabin appliances that our guests would understand?

@Emma-Flournoy *rolls eyes*
@Daeus no. One of my characters.

Solemnly. 🙁