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Mad Swede replied to the thread So about language-isms not in your native language?.Agreed, and I'd stress the need to read widely and extensively. Only then can you hope to gain the insight you need both to use... -
Mad Swede reacted to The Dark One's post in the thread So about language-isms not in your native language? with
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I do it a lot but I have read very extensively in the relevant cultures and have visited the relevant countries with my ears very much... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread How Epic Fantasy Writes So Many Characters at Once.Hmm. Might I challenge the idea of a traditionally large cast? The Lord of the Rings doesn't have a large cast at all, in fact if I...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Caption this....I thought custom was to gibbet people at the crossroads, not feed them to the spiders?
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Mad Swede replied to the thread To map, or not to map?.We've discussed artwork dpi before (here: Book cover artwork DPI) and the general rule is that you should be using as high a resolution...
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Also, this, from STONELANDS, which you can find in the book. It's a military SF/fantasy crossover, and having been an intelligence...
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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...
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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 Like.
Especially when Higher asks why an E9 sent up an RFI about whether or not the Chinese control the sun.
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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...