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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 21:57:34 GMT
Nice start
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 21:58:23 GMT
Nice start Thank chu! I took some inspiration from GOT, I must admit.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 22:44:17 GMT
I think it would be great if I made him learn Modern English through Shakespeare considering during his time they were indeed doing Shakespearean plays and he has the accent for it.
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Post by colfoley on Mar 27, 2018 4:09:56 GMT
So I finished my book on character arcs so now I am wondering, again, what to read next. Should I go buy the next book or start reading the Honor Harrington books again?
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Post by Gwyvian on Mar 28, 2018 1:09:49 GMT
Meh maybe he learns it because a professor's going to make him translate some books and maybe he'd learn to speak Modern English from there, I do suppose. He's not stupid. And I want him to know what people think of him (like in this, they're going to discuss the war of roses and bring up him up but he's quite the mysterious young man in history tho so they'd discuss him as a mystery and people would make educated guesses where the Prince went after being excelled and such). Not sure "translating" a written text would be much help, remember spelling hasn't changed that much at all since ME. Contextually newer words wouldn't even enter into the situation because he would be looking at a period-specific piece that made total sense to him; plus, ME doesn't really require much transition as you can see in that video I linked. A professor certainly could help speed up the adjustment process, though; but consider that a huge percentage of language is context. Your boy Edward basically won't "get" a lot of things in the language until someone (perhaps said professor) shows him around the modern world and describes in excruciating detail how all the "magical things" aren't magical at all, but founded on science and technology... he's in for a world of shock, that's for sure! I can only imagine what a crazy, magical place the world must look like from a medieval perspective. Point being, it's not really a language barrier that he's facing but an evolutionary one, without the context of history between his time period and the modern day, nothing he learns will actually make any sense. (Could be a history professor who gives him texts about everything that happened to humanity in the elapsed time? Any unfamiliar words can be circumvented by a good old copy of Oxford English Dictionary and a little help, but if Edward is as smart as you say, he won't need much help, just access to knowledge.) I think it would be great if I made him learn Modern English through Shakespeare considering during his time they were indeed doing Shakespearean plays and he has the accent for it. Sorry if I'm overbearing with the knowledge dump, it's just that this happens to be my primary field of study... I get very excited by these subjects. www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-early-modern-english/ You might want to check this out, Shakespeare is indeed a good bridge because a lot of Early Modern English is rooted in Shakespeare and grammatically it's still very similar to Modern English. Also though... he's coming to the 21st century, right? I think he would make great strides in catching up if someone just showed him how to use the internet... and maybe read Shakespeare there, hahahaha.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 1:15:44 GMT
ot sure "translating" a written text would be much help, remember spelling hasn't changed that much at all since ME. Contextually newer words wouldn't even enter into the situation because he would be looking at a period-specific piece that made total sense to him; plus, ME doesn't really require much transition as you can see in that video I linked. A professor certainly could help speed up the adjustment process, though; but consider that a huge percentage of language is context. Your boy Edward basically won't "get" a lot of things in the language until someone (perhaps said professor) shows him around the modern world and describes in excruciating detail how all the "magical things" aren't magical at all, but founded on science and technology... he's in for a world of shock, that's for sure! I can only imagine what a crazy, magical place the world must look like from a medieval perspective. Point being, it's not really a language barrier that he's facing but an evolutionary one, without the context of history between his time period and the modern day, nothing he learns will actually make any sense. (Could be a history professor who gives him texts about everything that happened to humanity in the elapsed time? Any unfamiliar words can be circumvented by a good old copy of Oxford English Dictionary and a little help, but if Edward is as smart as you say, he won't need much help, just access to knowledge.) True and when he discovers the monchary is still around, but as a figure head, he's going to be so very depressed at that (considering THAT WAS HIS PURPOSE TO BE KING... but I doubt he'd want it tho, considering all the trouble's it's caused him in the past with Richard)...
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Post by Gwyvian on Mar 28, 2018 1:21:27 GMT
ot sure "translating" a written text would be much help, remember spelling hasn't changed that much at all since ME. Contextually newer words wouldn't even enter into the situation because he would be looking at a period-specific piece that made total sense to him; plus, ME doesn't really require much transition as you can see in that video I linked. A professor certainly could help speed up the adjustment process, though; but consider that a huge percentage of language is context. Your boy Edward basically won't "get" a lot of things in the language until someone (perhaps said professor) shows him around the modern world and describes in excruciating detail how all the "magical things" aren't magical at all, but founded on science and technology... he's in for a world of shock, that's for sure! I can only imagine what a crazy, magical place the world must look like from a medieval perspective. Point being, it's not really a language barrier that he's facing but an evolutionary one, without the context of history between his time period and the modern day, nothing he learns will actually make any sense. (Could be a history professor who gives him texts about everything that happened to humanity in the elapsed time? Any unfamiliar words can be circumvented by a good old copy of Oxford English Dictionary and a little help, but if Edward is as smart as you say, he won't need much help, just access to knowledge.) True and when he discovers the monchary is still around, but as a figure head, he's going to be so very depressed at that (considering THAT WAS HIS PURPOSE TO BE KING... but I doubt he'd want it tho, considering all the trouble's it's caused him in the past with Richard)... I foresee lengthy stays in local taverns to drown his sorrows... or perhaps revolutionary zeal to somehow revive the old monarchy and return it to its glory days? Would he want to insert himself into modern politics and somehow convince the current royalty that he's got a claim on the throne none of them can beat or contest since he's technically a kind of ancestor...? I mean, Richard is out of the way here, right...... So many possibilities! Then again, I could see him being utterly seduced by the marvels of modern humankind and he would be technically released from his royal obligations, this is not the world he intended to rule.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 1:41:47 GMT
True and when he discovers the monchary is still around, but as a figure head, he's going to be so very depressed at that (considering THAT WAS HIS PURPOSE TO BE KING... but I doubt he'd want it tho, considering all the trouble's it's caused him in the past with Richard)... I foresee lengthy stays in local taverns to drown his sorrows... or perhaps revolutionary zeal to somehow revive the old monarchy and return it to its glory days? Would he want to insert himself into modern politics and somehow convince the current royalty that he's got a claim on the throne none of them can beat or contest since he's technically a kind of ancestor...? I mean, Richard is out of the way here, right...... So many possibilities! Then again, I could see him being utterly seduced by the marvels of modern humankind and he would be technically released from his royal obligations, this is not the world he intended to rule. Well he'd be dead though, so technicalities. I would like to think he doesn't do that, considering he's not the kind of person and he's roman Catholic still and he'd need to be reminded that the last king with Catholic connections was brutally murdered for it because they don't want another Catholic king. But I would like to think if he would ever to meet one, he'd laugh in his head though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 0:23:14 GMT
Edward says not a single word in my second chapter, lol. I don't think him saying anything would be suffice (because he's totally and completely in a state of shock and you just get this feeling that he's on his way to completely breaking down.. yet somehow he got himself out the hospital without saying a single thing. Meh, well that he is a John Doe, even if he doesn't say his name and now he's wondering across London, avoiding cars.. I rather hate the car cliché, he's smart enough to avoid cars. ) Cassandra comes in the next chapter as It comes on TV that a lost John Doe has been spotted outside of a hospital, just wandering around. He might even go to York if given the chance and people are looking for him because well.. I'll figure out a reason, but... he can get away with it as unknown... Lol. The hospital fucked up.
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Post by House Targaryen on Apr 9, 2018 0:20:01 GMT
Trying to get back into writing. Half way done with a story, have to finish it. Been watching post apocalypse types of movies and tv shows to get me into the mindset again, since its a post apocalypse Fallout type of story.
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Post by Lady Artifice on Apr 18, 2018 3:00:12 GMT
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Post by Beerfish on Apr 18, 2018 19:20:15 GMT
Betty! Veronica is a snob! How Archie has both of them after him is anyone's guess, must be the jalopy.
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Post by colfoley on May 6, 2018 1:58:29 GMT
Well my second book is turning into a real monster. I am already at 44 chapters and I am not even anywhere close to being done with the second act...if we take it as a three act story that is.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 3:24:33 GMT
I've had to rewrite my entire fanfiction becuase I wasn't happy with my second page. That means deleting comments (not all, just those off my old one to avoid confusion, etc) and re-writing a better story (Rhaegar is so mentally unstable after Rhaenys and Elia's death that I feel sorrow for him. It makes it even worse because of the Ironborn are rebelling and he has to deal with them in that state of mind, just a mere year after he won the Trident too). He
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on May 30, 2018 15:24:45 GMT
Thoughts on use of multiple narrators - As a storyteller, I have always struggled with continuity of narrative voice over the course of a story. Generally, this occurs almost subconsciously... Starting as a first person narrator, I inevitably feel confined due to a sometimes large or at least significant cast of characters beyond the protagonist, and slip into third person voices. My "novel" thought of the day, which certainly is not a "new" idea - perhaps change my structure, and write overlapping tales of different voices, contained in different "books" of the same novel. It could possibly be a chapter by chapter thing as well. Probably mixing FP/TPO. It might be interesting as well to play with which tale you tell first, and determine ultimately who was more reliable. Thoughts? Examples for me to read?
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