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Insolent Lad reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread How do you keep your world notes useful while drafting? with
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Well, given that I'm a one pass writer who thinks the whole story through first and then writes it down I don't keep any notes at all... -
Insolent Lad replied to the thread How do you keep your world notes useful while drafting?.My world building is largely in the form of plain text documents (lots and lots of them) neatly sorted into folders (lots and lots of...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Does predictable = 'bad' ?.There is predictable and predictable. We can all predict Poirot will solve the case but predicting who the culprit will be is not so simple.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What is your worlds stance on lgbtq folks?.When more than a few of the gods are LGBTQ+ (or the equivalent in their setting), humans are likely to be accepting of it. This hasn't...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What makes you read a book multiple times?.I'm old enough to be revisiting books I first read decades ago and feeling the need to reacquaint myself with them. I have to admit...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Fantasy/fiction in modern setting.The greater part of Stephen King's output is fantasy (albeit frequently 'horror fantasy') in a modern setting. Not that I'm a King fan...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What are you top fifteen Favorite Novels / Series?.Off the top of my head and not necessarily in order: Brideshead Revisited — Waugh The Lord of the Rings — Tolkien Vanity Fair —...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Why do you like Harry Potter?.Can't say I do like the series. The first two or three books were fairly entertaining, despite a lot of 'junk words' and adverb abuse...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What's the oldest movie you've watched/seen?.I think that might be the original 1918 silent version of Tarzan of the Apes with Elmo Lincoln in the title role.
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread How Do You Build a Believable Divination System for a Fantasy World?.I generally prefer a scientific (or pseudo-scientific or 'rubber science') explanation for this--and pretty much everything else of a...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread What tool to use?.It is. OpenOffice doesn't keep adding as many 'bells and whistles' and might be a tad more stable. I use Libre mostly because it comes...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Where to Write.Being old-fashioned (or maybe just old) I do all my writing off-line, mostly using LibreOffice. Drafting on my laptop, comfortably on...
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Gods and Wizards.Some world-building notes, mostly about gods: The Gods
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Insolent Lad replied to the thread Writing a magazine article?.Wrote quite a few when I was younger but they were mostly for fitness and bodybuilding magazines. The world has changed a lot since I...