Faith Kindred

‘Our questions and our empty words’

Hey… Daeus is starting to use LotR references… must be a good sign… 😉

Good topic, Hope. Daeus got a lot of it, but one thing I would mention is that a quick, very effective way to make someone’s speech sound old fashioned is to play with the sentence structure. Reverse it. It’ll still make sense, but it’ll have a very distinct flavor. For…[Read more]

I expect if she had been living alone for 500 years she would have started to talk to herself all the time. Maybe she would have completely created a separate entity of herself in her mind that she could talk to as if it were another person (kind of like Gollum). She might also start to think of inanimate objects as things she can talk to. Maybe…[Read more]

Oooo, jetpacks; I’d not thought of those either. I’ll have to see…

I’ve done that in a trilogy I’m writing…the MC’s view is in first person, present tense, and occasionally I write chapters from other character’s views in third person, past tense. It actually flows together even better than I’d hoped and I really like it for the style of book I’m writing. I’ve seen it in published books too (the switching of…[Read more]

“Though sometimes we do question ‘why?'”

Interesting idea… though to some people it might be seen as almost cheating. Because in giving yourself a certain set POV, you’re setting yourself rules to work with. There’s a certain satisfaction to making a scene work in a POV that it’s hard it work in.
Not sure if your average reader would have issues reading that sort of thing, but I have…[Read more]

Jetpacks, how could I forget? Yes, jetpacks. We already have them of course, but they are expensive and don’t work very well. But give us 200 years and I think we could develop a model t jet pack.

Personally I prefer both reading and writing 3rd person. I like to develop all the characters on an intimate level, and you can’t get that level of character development with 1st person.

You can get good development with 1st person, it’s just you need a LOT more material to do it. You can’t show a simple scene through each character’s POV.…[Read more]

‘For all things live, and and all things die’

“A plea of,”Rest” is carried on the breeze”

“He lives,” sing the leaves.

“No searching is required”

But it would be very hard to control with precision to say the least. Who knows though, it might be done.

‘To know that Love, and see that Love’

Hm, first I thought this was going to be a nature poem, but why not go with both?
So what do we have so far?

‘When Autumn winds excite the leaves
and whisper through the fading grass,
When raindrops tumble off the eaves,
Then, I feel at home.

For wind and rain and leaf and tree
speak of Love much greater…[Read more]

The good thing about 1st person is that you get to know your MC really well and see everything through their eyes. But if you have a large cast and want to switch views occasionally, that might not be the best thing.
I like 3rd person better for most things, but 1st is more to-the-point.
What aspects do you have to this book? Is it more one…[Read more]

Laser=light
You can estimate (with math) how far the light @ this power @ this frequency will go in *list materials*
Light will spread, It is it’s nature, lasers just stay more in line but it will still do it.
So yes, it is realistic.

A wipe of the eyes sounds believable. Maybe even tears, but the fact that he never knew his father before would work against that.

Question for a scene of my own. If a young man (around 17) has grown up in the mountains after his mother died not long after his birth, and was raised by a man who he loved (and who died around a year ago, at which point this young man was captured and imprisoned)…anyway, moving on, he ends up finding his real father and speaking to him for the…[Read more]