Otherworldly Historian

@jonas

Writing in general is hard, but hardness is subjective, and it’s all up to what you want. Here though, I don’t think it would be that different from developing a magic system. It’s all about the structure. In terms of developing things like lexicon can come later if at all.

@jonas

I am always happy to nerd out over languages. There’s many ways they could be used to convey meaning. They could function as phonemes, allowing a spoken language where they act as letters, or they might not carry that idea at all. Since they are made to visually represent a concept, they would be referred to as pictographs, like…[Read more]

@jonas

Ohhh, are these gonna act as runes or glyphs? Can they be used as a language or some other purpose?

@whalekeeper

I guess you can only measure them as well as you can measure words. A picture is worth a thousand words? But how many pictures are needed to convey the Gettysburg address? The quality of a sentence is what really matters, rather than the quantity of words, just as the quality of an image is what matters rather than the number of…[Read more]

@hybridlore

I’m not sure, the largest continuous story I’ve written so far is hardly a tenth of that, and I’ve been perfecting for a long time. It’s a challenge that is way too unrealistic with my current portfolio, but I think I’ll at least try, perhaps the due date will force me to produce more, it’s happened before. Either way, it sounds like…[Read more]

@jonas

That could make sense. It makes me itch and want to ask about Ontology though. What makes muscle mass fundamentally a different thing from other forms of mass? You can say the compounds present, but then it would be weird in terms of drawing from the ground. You after all are not made from the same things the ground is for the most part.…[Read more]

@jonas

True, but what would be the most you could do with that? You would essentially just become really heavy, and the most you could do combat wise if your light enough to stand is have a super powerful stability, difficult to move at all. You would want the majority of that mass in your legs, but you could channel a good amount into your arm…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

That makes sense, glad to have you back though!

As far as I can tell, the profiles seem to be working fine now, we’ll keep you posted if anything changes!

@jonas

That’s a good restriction, another could be simply the practicality of drawing that much mass from something. Maybe you could theoretically draw mass from the planet, but there’s a limit on how much mass your body could take before you simply collapse and break bones from the weight.

@kathleenramm

Looks like you just fixed it! Thanks!

@everyone

General Conference Oct 2023! Streaming sessions Sat 30 through Oct 1s!

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The first session for today starts in half an hour now at 10:30 CDT! Come see this incredible men and women…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Kathleen! Your not dead! You’ve left everyone hanging for months now😂

Anyways, have you noticed that the formatting in general has been off? It’s been like that for well over a month now.

Hope to see you around again!

@jonas

Sounds good to me! So is one absolute restriction is that the mass remains constant over the whole body? What if you could pull mass from objects you touch? There would have to be a limit on this, because you could just pull mass from the ground almost indefinitely for practical purposes, which would both shadow the original idea too much…[Read more]

@rainmaker

Thanks! I appreciate it! And that sounds really cool. I haven’t thought of an idea that’s stuck yet but I think it would be fun to write about another universe or space.

Yeah, it’s a universe where the planets are actually 4d superstructures passing through a 3d cross-section, allowing for essentially unlimited worldbuilding pos…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

I have a cousin that’s older than me, and he once read my work and said “I bet I could write a book, it can’t be that hard!” I was appalled. How dare he, haha. We started working together on a dystopia. We got 7 pages in, and he told me that he found it boring and had better things to do! Easy, huh?

You really have to stick w…

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@jonas

Interesting. Yeah, for my sisters thing, it’s a particular character that has the ability, where they are making use of pulling particle mass from higher dimensional space (she has me come up with the explanations by the way😂), so it’s also slightly different where it doesn’t have to be a constant universal mass. So the implant thing is a…[Read more]

@jonas

Yep! That’s the way of things. Good luck with it! There’s probably many countless aspects to explore in it that neither she or I have thought of, or anyone else.

@savannah_grace2009

Thanks, I never knew how hard writing can be! It’s a rollercoaster…sometimes you get depressed because you can’t figure out one sentence and then you get excited because you wrote something “good”. Writing is hard….but it’s a good challenge!

That’s very true! It’s a skill that takes a lot of time to develop, taking in a l…[Read more]