Recent content by A. E. Lowan

You, sir, are a rabble rouser. You rouse rabble. ;) And yes, you are very right. And your girlfriend - really beautiful name - was also right. I tend to call Lazamon Welsh because there's some question as to his origins. Or there was 20 years ago. I was one of like 5 people in the discipline...

I come from a Lang and Lit in Historical Context background, so I know my way around an epic. I'd rather engage in a literary discussion with a mime than to write one of these things. I also can't rhyme to save the universe, so that might be a factor. I've got two epics that are my favorites...

This is a really great speech, where Sanderson is able to articulate something that I've been circling for months. It's heavy craft stuff, so I'm putting it in here.

Nothing to apologize for. I just saw that 2016 and immediately spawned a Rollator. ;)

And then Naru extended a hand and brought forth a necro. Naru saw it and saw that it was good. Okay, kinda good. Deploy meme!

I adore this channel. She is smart and funny and talks a lot about the details of our world buildings that can help flesh out our worlds. She also needs more clicks.

Now that's something I didn't know! And that does make sense. Ancient Hebrew and Akkadian would reasonably belong to the same language family. It reminds me of Old English and Frisian. Not much in common on paper, but you can hear how close they are when spoken. Do we know if Akkadian used...

We write Deep 3rd Person with 7 to 9 POV's or more. Their internal narrative serves as the reader's keyhole into the world. There are a lot of people who would argue that we absolutely cannot head hop inside a chapter with this much investment in one perspective. I say hold my hurley. Head...

Do you have all 150K in verse? Are you following any particular epic poetry tradition, like Viking or Ancient Greek? Personally, I'm a sucker for Sumerian. Note: My actual research area is Angevin England and the establishment of nationalism through narrative. I just love Gilgamesh and we're...

I did. I was talking about writing and how I experience it in the general chat. I can't load images straight to chat, and this is the best way I know to create the image links the chat needs. I use this meme to explain how I hear writing as music, and everything ebbs and flows in rhythm and...