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    MSadiq reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread The Flood: Introducing my World with Like Like.
    I like the foundations; plenty to work with. It's all general worldbuilding (which is why it's in this forum!), but I'm usually more...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread The Flood: Introducing my World.
    Yes, there are a lot of details that I've already made, like clothing, architecture, political structure, etc., but these are just...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread The Flood: Introducing my World.
    Yes, and that's why I've made it the most dangerous place on Tilmun, not just because of the creatures within, but also the fact that...
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    MSadiq reacted to ThinkerX's post in the thread The Flood: Introducing my World with Like Like.
    To recap: 1 - An ancient tyrant attempted a dangerous ritual to become immortal via the theft of life energy. 2 - Instead, this...
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    MSadiq reacted to Finchbearer's post in the thread The Flood: Introducing my World with Like Like.
    It’s really interesting.The narrative potential of the dragon burrow is huge, and could give a lot of thematic depth, but risks becoming...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread The Flood: Introducing my World.
    No, it's the Ma, the power, the flooded out that turned them to crystals then they shattered. Not portals. Humans just pop out onto the...
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    MSadiq posted the thread The Flood: Introducing my World in World Building.
    I want to give background information first. The story takes place in 3 different worlds. They're Tilmun, Erd, and Apertum, which is...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.
    I kept meaning to reply, but never did. One of the things I intend, insha'Allah, to make relevant in my story is scribes, so I'll...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.
    I tried to communicate an Arabic phrase here, and the best way I thought of was "almost-corpse." It sounds a bit weird because it's more...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.
    It's just that I'm very used to these kinds of extended metaphors that it didn't cross my mind that it could be interpreted how you did...
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    MSadiq reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Prose Style Concern with Like Like.
    Thanks for the thoughtful reply. To clarify my own comments, it wasn't that I thought you were portraying eyes becoming mouths in any...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.
    I really should've made it clearer. Only the first who paragraphs are part of the same text, while the other two are standalone. They're...
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    MSadiq reacted to Finchbearer's post in the thread Prose Style Concern with Like Like.
    I don’t want to rub salt in the wound or maybe I do - I really enjoyed Winters in the World. One thing I remember from that is ‘frosts...
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    MSadiq reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Prose Style Concern with Like Like.
    Kennings aren't much used in modern Swedish, but do occur in older prose, especially poetry and folk tales. You'd use kennings to keep a...
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    MSadiq replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.
    You just opened an old wound. Winters in the World got lost in shipping, and I never got my hands on it... I haven't read anything from...
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