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.
since i first mentioned this, my friend Tom at https://edgesoffaerie.substack.com/ also said the same. and now you. so now i'm wondering if it's not so much barbarians as such, but the elect :D
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.
Thanks, Laeth. Maybe this is what Tolkien meant when he talked about "sub creation"? The author or poet or musician does not create from nothing. They seem to take ideas from the outside world and from God. Then they shape those ideas. Sometimes the ideas can appear to shape themselves.
An example is when I was writing yesterday while listening to some rather wacky esoteric music (it was lo-fi house, specifically). And I just wrote whatever came to mind. I don't think it was the best ideas, but they were interesting and they just shaped themselves sometimes.
yes, a similar idea. except that i believe God also did it (and not ex nihilo), although on a scale that our own creativity is still a pale comparison, like a toddler finger painting compared to a great master of the craft. with time, and right motivation, i believe we may yet attain that mastery though.
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.
“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.
I used to not sleep with a pillow sometimes. That was when I was a child; these days I always prefer a pillow.
i think i did as a child, but then all through adolescence and until i started dating my wife i didn’t. seems weird to me now tbh.
well now you’ve met one other person with a barbarian soul who needs to be civilised by the right woman, apparently
since i first mentioned this, my friend Tom at https://edgesoffaerie.substack.com/ also said the same. and now you. so now i'm wondering if it's not so much barbarians as such, but the elect :D
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.
Thanks, Laeth. Maybe this is what Tolkien meant when he talked about "sub creation"? The author or poet or musician does not create from nothing. They seem to take ideas from the outside world and from God. Then they shape those ideas. Sometimes the ideas can appear to shape themselves.
An example is when I was writing yesterday while listening to some rather wacky esoteric music (it was lo-fi house, specifically). And I just wrote whatever came to mind. I don't think it was the best ideas, but they were interesting and they just shaped themselves sometimes.
yes, a similar idea. except that i believe God also did it (and not ex nihilo), although on a scale that our own creativity is still a pale comparison, like a toddler finger painting compared to a great master of the craft. with time, and right motivation, i believe we may yet attain that mastery though.