Recent content by JCFarnham

Some sort of gothic art nouveau, is what comes to mind first I guess. But that's 'cause I'm weird. But yeah, Victorian-ness, gears, pipes and all that, instantly scream steampunk for most. Troynos makes a very good point too though! Not necessarily the architecture itself makes it steampunk but...

Okay seriously didn't mean to hit a nerve there... I'll leave you guys to it.

The thing about Writing with Colour is that the mods there know exactly what they're talking about. They live it, day in day out. And there's an awful lot of stuff that the privileged white don't realise is damaging. A lot of ingrained stuff. We don't mean to be racist, we don't set out to be...

I guess I'm weird then for finding on screen keyboards easy to write with!

I guess something like a kindle fire would for that? Alternatively steer away from iPhones and you'll get much better battery life.. But it's personal preference I guess. I write almost exclusively on my HTC one when out an about. And as long as it's at least half charged I never seem to have...

I'm going to throw a spanner in here and say I've got no problem with 1st person, or multi 1st (though to a lesser degree). I've only read books where it was done right. Strict PoV A then PoV B and switching back and forth from then, was one technique. I've also seen a couple of times what...

Ah but wasn't "man" also originally used to mean a human being of any gender? Therefore a "a man who has magical powers..." could easy be a gender neutral definition. If you fancy. Haha.

Catherine is very much your typical "bean pole". Tall, thin, almost to a fault, not overly malnourished but doesn't necessarily look after herself, with very subtle curves. Aside from that I have very few specific details. She's a first person pov and doesn't tend to describe herself, or...

Something Brian said a few posts back spoke to me. Reasonable intelligence and the drive to get better. There may be a lot of "learnable" skills in writing, perhaps more so than some arts(?), but there is still that hint of talent there. If someone can be reasonably intelligent enough to write...

Stick to your guns. That's what I say. Then again I really don't listen to other people's labels for my life :)

Like I said in t'other thread, I'm in. I'll pm you sometime tomorrow with my email address. I'm all for diversity, but still need to educate myself. There's a lot I don't get yet, ever evolving terminology being one of them I suppose.

I'm very much of the same opinion, Mytho, on most of your points. Though I have to admit I honestly can't think of an example other than the Furies of Calerdon... I'm probably ignoring a glaringly obvious, if somewhat better, example there. Japanese fiction really does mix tropes up in a...

If got to say that I disagree with some of the ideas being put forth in favour of western storytelling being better for its greyness. Japanese storytelling is very much about archetypes and philosophy, I will concede to that, but to imply that this makes it simplistic, childish or somehow less...

As far as I'm aware LGBTQ literature is a genre in which being LGBTQ, as Ireth says, impacts the story in some way. Kind of like how having a romantic subplot doesn't necessarily qualify a book as a romance. I'd go as far to say your story wouldn't be considered "pure" LGBTQ for that reason...

I'll bet any money Caged Maiden that your friend was touching on Discourse Theory, but going about it with no concrete knowledge and with the wrong attitude. Basically there is a theory within marketing that states that intention is only one small part of an adverts final meaning within...