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Mad Swede replied to the thread So about language-isms not in your native language?.You mean colloquial expressions. They can be a way of setting a story or character without making location or origin specific. The one... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread How do you feel about the 'classic' villain monologue about their plans?.I have trouble taking that sort of monologue seriously, although it does have its place in certain types of film. I don't ever use them...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread The Tragedy of Disparate Lifespans: How Society and Law Adapt to Human-Monster Romance.Thinking a bit more about this, I'd suggest you read Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything and then consider the character...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread The Tragedy of Disparate Lifespans: How Society and Law Adapt to Human-Monster Romance.Your questions are one of the hidden (or perhaps I should write less obvious) themes in the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien drops a series of...
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Maps and more maps. Not just maps of the world, but maps of a particular city, a map of a building within that city, and even a map of a...
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVTDLDFW? Sorry, brain only engaged just now. This is one of my pretty little composition books. There are...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?.The closest I ever got to a situation like this was in central Africa. We had to deal with a herd of forest elephants who were living in...
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Mad Swede reacted to Malik's post in the thread Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut? with
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?.Normally I'd expect that to be in the mission brief or maybe the latest intsum, but there's always something they don't tell you...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?.Writing this as a former brigade commander, you have no idea what it's like to be on the receiving end of a briefing like this. You're...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Reading LotR for the First Time: Beauty and Morality.I think you should read LoTR all the way to the end, as this may make you rethink some of what you wrote. It isn't quite as straight...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread LAUNCH DAY.Be honest now. If you or I knew the answers to a question like that we could write a real best-seller on how old wrecks like us find our...
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I think we discussed this, but my wife Katie was on Allt för Sverige and She did a singing tour of Sweden, a TV Christmas special, and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread LAUNCH DAY.Not something that ever happens at Swedish book signings. Contrary to popular impressions, Swedish women are fairly shy.
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They were very nice boobs. Definite career high point. (For those not tracking, at a signing some years back when my books were really...