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A 1904 English-Tagalog Dictionary, including Spanish loanwords as well as native. Seems like it tries to give options. 1917, Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis. If you can find a full version of this book, he is on this one page comparing ancient and modern Tagalog. If they don't quite...

A while ago there was a post on the Mythic Scribes article page about dialogue and how to make it more engaging. The article used some Game of Thrones televisual examples to describe the technique of including actions that parallel, contrast, or alter the nature of the conversation. GoT has some...

Fifthview has some great ideas! Rolling off of them, using large glass decorations/prisms could potentially be used to divert sunlight directly below a ship. This could erase the silhouette, or potentially make the ship seem like a second sun from below. This won't work if your sea monster is...

Definitely in agreement. I'd want to push this a bit towards Helio's point, which does sorta represent the more traditional structural forms of tragedy/comedy. A tragedy in this case occurs not when the hero necessary fails in their goal. A tragedy occurs when the hero succumbs to their fatal...

We're totally derailing the thread, so I'll try to bring it back to Geldor, but that's an interesting situation. Having seen one orc do this good act, that means that broader orc-kind is in fact capable of good. They're not automatically bent on destruction, murder, etc. Therefore can...

That's a useful model for some stories, but as we've seen with similar sinister power sources (including vampirism) the good guy will usually abstain from using it unless they find it absolutely necessary. The temptation is there, of course. I think the internal conflict involved in this model...

I also understand the killing for sport objection, and I get it's a tad facetious, but I think this is entirely the wrong question. As is often the case in fiction, a character doesn't decide to take up a quest / learn magic / interact with a dangerous artifact for no reason. For the last one...

I'm imagining that skyscrapers in a fantasy world would maybe increase urban population density, and thus resource demand, waste output, disease outbreak rates, etc. Or alternatively, massive garden towers, with vertical fruit orchards and magical hydroponics systems. What about in the winter...

Maybe we could take the thread to the hypothetical, thought-experiment level... We have a couple examples of flying cities, cities which use portals and extra-dimensional space, and cities that can grow outward/upward in surprising ways. How might this change access to food and water? How...

I agree with MKE here, as much as I am also on board with the others. The lone traveller trope can be very effective as a seemingly separate storyline. This pops up pretty often: most recently for me in the TV show Preacher. The gunman's story is periodically presented to us, and as an audience...

Love this method, and I use it with every character I make (may sound strange, but you can come up with some great stuff bringing these questions into a bath). I first encountered this on the screenwriter Allan Palmer's website, and I highly recommend everything he's posted. And I totally...

I love this idea! I can imagine characters in a setting with these buildings, and the overwhelming feeling of being watched by something inside... Very creepy. :alien: One of my races is restricted to a form of magic that allows them to destroy, and never create. As a result, their domiciles...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone's got any interesting examples of cities and buildings being affected by the magic of their world. This is something that gets ignored fairly frequently I find. Instead, fantasy tends to examine how magic affects political structure (which is still...

Not here for super meaningful input, but on the subject of bait/hook/lures, here's a fantastic first paragraph from Lydia Davis' short story "The Center of the Story". “A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually...

Listening to this interview with Michael R Fletcher on the Grim Tidings podcast, it sounds a lot like the regular world of publishing in terms of how much effort it takes to make a name for oneself: be social, think about media, and use social media. In the interview, Fletcher describes how he...