Recent content by A. E. Lowan

Have you had a chance to check out Emily Wilson's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssy? I think you'll appreciarte her perspectioves ands how very small changes can resonate through not only a work, but through time, itself. She's created something iconic...

Then we get the real fun. Nailing the timing, which is often an auditory thing, in text where you have little control of how a reader paces your prose.

Twelfth Night. Probably my favorite.

In that humor relies heavily on social cues to make the funny flow, like timing. Timing is crucial to humor. And timing is also crucial to communication between adult humans, which is what trips up so many autists. We don't speak People-Monkey very well, and the other People-Monkeys pick up on...

Okay, I need to ask. Why the SFWA hate? I think I've missed something. And we're talking about the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America? They of Writer Beware fame?

Last time I had a safe link to the numbers, I think pirates have put more of our books in hands than we have. Which is a bit frustrating and Joiners get further in Publishing than lurkers. Just sayin'. It is. It's a whole lot. But, personally, I'm too dumb to quit. Irish. Obstinate is a breed...

Tanya Huff does some cool stuff with the entire Human, Elf, Dwarf dynamic in her Valor books. Military SciFi.

Good move. "In an ironic twist of fate." Totally needs to die. Although, "The door to our bedchambers clicked shut with a precarious finality." I liked this one. You're on the right track.

That's going to depend a great deal on how we're defining "honest," and honestly understanding that this is a creative and craft forum. Lots of beginners, lots of learning, and no room for edgy or patronizing or punching down. And back to our usual content...

I think you're probably right, especially with younger writers. I just don't think I'm going to be one of them. I hear "Tiffany," and all that I can think about is, "I think we're alone, now," and suddenly I've lost the plot under all the hairspray. Our immortal characters change their names on...

Greetings, oh researching one. The Tiffany Problem is very much real. This, here, is the Tiffany Problem. It's the assumption that a name or whatever is 'obviously modern' because you've seen or heard one in our modern life. There's also the assumption that if it's not in English it doesn't...

This is absolutely true. And this is a really great moment to point out that we can also have class and income disparity stories, and the chance to talk about them with honesty that bleeds. Why? Because it hurts us. It hurts because in the West we also like to talk about poverty in terms of...

Yes. But that's the plot, not the point. Somehow scanned past this, earlier. When I hear 'you can't force it,' and it's always implied that to do otherwise is stuffing diversity down the reader's throat, as if the act of reading and being in the story is involuntary, what I really hear is, "I...

Finally got the bloody screenshot to upload. >.<