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JJessMahler reacted to pmmg's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with
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I'm not sure what I think on this. My inclination is to say, if all my magic was based on jibberish words, and it was frequent in the... -
JJessMahler replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.Historically, arcane languages have either been /old/ (Latin, Sumerian, Biblical Hebrew (for Jews)) and those assumed to be 'purer' or...
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JJessMahler replied to the thread War at Sea: Galley vs Sailing Ship.Matches my understanding. As I understand it, galleys did retain a significant advantage in boarding operations until the advent of Tall...
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JThis is what I wrote as a result of my research on whether to use galleys or sailing ships as primary warships in my setting. War at...
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JJessMahler reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread What counts as "moving the plot forward"? with Like.
I think you have the advice wrong (or almost right, which might be worse...). Each chapter should move the story forward. But a story is...
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JJessMahler replied to the thread Gods and Deities interference in your world.I am Jewish, and reading this, I can't help remembering the reactions of many to the Shoah. "If there is a God, he will need to beg my...
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JJessMahler replied to the thread If I'd only known....Blogger I knew for a while, not any kind of big name. Think she writes under a pseudonym. It's possible she got it frm Faulkner.
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JJessMahler replied to the thread If I'd only known....Hemingway is on my 'maybe one day' list. I suspect he's too literary for my taste, but I'll take a look if I get the chance. As for...
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JThere are certainly naturally talented writers, but are they better than normal writers who've put thousands of hours into learning? I...
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JLove this delineation. Using extreme examples, the "beautifully written bore-fest" vs. the "really cool unreadable story." My post...
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JSuddenly realising one day (back in 1992) that a story didn't have to be all written out in one go from A to Z. That was huge. The idea...
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JPurely motivational threads are awesome, but I want to do something a little more specific here: What are the top techniques and tools...
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JJessMahler replied to the thread Co-Authoring Process Conflicts.The possible choppiness is one thing I worry about sometimes. I haven't noticed any, but then I'm not sure I would, with being too close...
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JI married into a musician family. Yeah, I know, I got a musician to talk about marriage and it worked! lol But no, I've seen a whole lot...
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JJessMahler replied to the thread Co-Authoring Process Conflicts.Thanks! I've done some solo work, but now that I have a good collab going I'm not sure I could go back to it. To be honest, I'm not...