RIP otters. As a kid I thought I'd find one on the side of the road and take it home, keep it in the bathtub to be friends with. But they're not very common where I live, I'd have had better luck with a beaver.
On another note, I tried diagramming your categories and it's not going well. I think I need to find about 7 specific ideas and list the idea in each form, maybe then I'll be able to figure out the relationship between the forms. And now I sound like a classicist.
That quote about "losing the plot" was helpful and encouraging. As a beginner fantasy writer, I have a lot to learn. And one lesson is that my main character has her own personality and free will, almost independent of my own. I might not understand her well, though.
thank you for your comment. it's interesting that you're not the first to interpret that aphorism as being about writing, though i meant it to be about life more generally. i think it still applies of course. and yes, that is how i experience fiction writing, more like mediumship than creation. authorship is shaping more than it is creating something from nothing (another intersection with life more generally). good luck on your book.
“before i started dating my wife i used to sleep without a pillow. the right woman is a civilizing force.” So true 😂
ehe true in many ways. though this one, i find it very rare. i don't think i've met anyone IRL who didn't sleep with a pillow, other than myself.
RIP otters. As a kid I thought I'd find one on the side of the road and take it home, keep it in the bathtub to be friends with. But they're not very common where I live, I'd have had better luck with a beaver.
On another note, I tried diagramming your categories and it's not going well. I think I need to find about 7 specific ideas and list the idea in each form, maybe then I'll be able to figure out the relationship between the forms. And now I sound like a classicist.
i'm not really a diagram kind of guy, so i can't help there.
That quote about "losing the plot" was helpful and encouraging. As a beginner fantasy writer, I have a lot to learn. And one lesson is that my main character has her own personality and free will, almost independent of my own. I might not understand her well, though.
thank you for your comment. it's interesting that you're not the first to interpret that aphorism as being about writing, though i meant it to be about life more generally. i think it still applies of course. and yes, that is how i experience fiction writing, more like mediumship than creation. authorship is shaping more than it is creating something from nothing (another intersection with life more generally). good luck on your book.