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@Dragon-snapper, INTP’s are notoriously good at tossing out all sorts of ideas but never doing anything with them. Which is why, if you ask one for an idea, you’re going to get lots. We enjoy the fun of coming up with things and seeing them worked out without having to go to the trouble of working them out ourselves :).

@Widdrim, I see. If it comes to that I’m also aesthetically Catholic. In doctrine and in practice I’m Baptist, which is about as far as you can get from Catholicism :), but we stick to more tradition and liturgical worship than most Baptists. I’ve had good friends who are Catholics, too, and between them and Chesterton I’ve gotten familiar with a…[Read more]

@Widdrim, so are you Catholic then? I prefer Father Brown too, because he looks at people as people and not just collections of facts, and he uses the knowledge he’s gained “by being a celibate simpleton, I suppose”, in his own words, to understand them. Probably my favourite of his is The Blue Cross. “You attacked reason,” said Father Brown.…[Read more]

@Widdrim, so are you Catholic then? I prefer Father Brown too, because he looks at people as people and not just collections of facts, and he uses the knowledge he’s gained “by being a celibate simpleton, I suppose”, in his own words, to understand them. Probably my favourite of his is The Blue Cross. “You attacked reason,” said Father Brown.…[Read more]

@Dragon-snapper, well, why does the dragon-who-melts-everything melt everything? Did Daeus rub him the wrong way? (No offence, Daeus, but it seems likely if you don’t like the dragons but Hope brought them anyway. It sounds like a good recipe for story conflict, and good dialogue too.)I can see Hope training the dragons and taking notes on them…[Read more]

@Dragon-snapper, I got part of a blog post and got sidetracked by riddles :).

@Dragon-snapper, I’ll join you.

@Widdrim

Ave (Latin)
Eala/godne daeg/god morgen/god aefen (Old English)
Mae govannen (Elvish, of course)
Hola (Spanish)
Guten Tag/Guten Morgen (German)
Bonjour (French)
Hello, hi, top o’ the morning to you, etc. (English, obviously)

Okay, that’s only seven.

Lilith. . . is that a story? Involving a raven who’s also Mr Raven who’s also Adam?…[Read more]

@Widdrim, Linguistics? English Major? God aefen and mae govannen and. . . let’s see, how many languages can I give greetings in? It was about eight last I checked. I barely get to use any of them because nobody speaks Latin anymore and things like that.
Anyway, welcome again. Have you actually edited anything yet? I’m kinda-sorta an aspiring…[Read more]

@Widdrim, Linguistics? English Major? God aefen and mae govannen and. . . let’s see, how many languages can I give greetings in? It was about eight last I checked. I barely get to use any of them because nobody speaks Latin anymore and things like that.
Anyway, welcome again. Have you actually edited anything yet? I’m kinda-sorta an aspiring…[Read more]

@Winter-rose, I don’t do official writing on Sundays, but I got a notification and came to see and saw your conversation at the same time, and dropped in my two cents because I am a Tolkien fan.

@Winter-rose, Isengard and Orthanc are almost the same place.

@Audrey-caylin, @winter-rose, @GracieGirl, I’m off for the night. I got a fair amount edited.

Also: you know you are a writer when you can talk about how a character, pre-conversion, found it fun to kill people, and the person you’re talking to gets it.

@Audrey-Caylin, I’m going to be editing and revising and maybe writing new stuff for about an hour.

@Kate-flournoy, in a world (we are talking about fantasy too, right?) whose rules allow for that kind of thing, yes. Not in our world, unfortunately. But in the world of the example I used, Owen Barfield’s fairy tale The Silver Trumpet, magic can be good or bad depending on how it’s used. In that story there’s one old lady who uses her power for…[Read more]

@Kate-flournoy, right. Did I say something that implied otherwise?

@Alia, what Kate said.

I like to compare magic (supernatural power used by humans/humanish creatures) to words. Words are used, if you think about it, in a lot of the ways magic is. You can use words to change the way people think or act, for example. Now, some people use words to do bad things — to tear people down, or to get people to do bad…[Read more]

@Daeus, the Romantics had plenty of problems to go around. I wouldn’t recommend modelling your life on Byron’s, or Shelley’s, for example.

Milton was definitely not a Romantic poet, but he spent much of his life preparing to write an epic, and then went blind and was afraid he’d never do it. But he did it anyway.