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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:56:17 PM »
You're on.
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Writing Group / Re: Best. Word. Ever.
« on: January 20, 2011, 06:47:23 PM »
I have encountered the word contumelious for the first time. There aren't many words that I have to look up in a dictionary.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 17, 2011, 05:17:12 AM »
Halo: It's not a big deal. The only reason that we have people post here first as all is to make sure that we don't get too many submissions in one week. Personally I would probably cap submissions at about 6 or so a week, which has rarely if ever happened.
List updated.
List updated.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 15, 2011, 07:11:45 AM »
*sigh* You people with your submissions. You are NOT making me feel any more productive, over here. 
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 08, 2011, 11:12:08 PM »
Haha.
Mkay, that's three so far.
Mkay, that's three so far.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 05, 2011, 05:37:38 AM »
Thanks, Strider!
By the way, for those of you who got Strider's email and wondering who the heck this Natalie person is, that would be me.
By the way, for those of you who got Strider's email and wondering who the heck this Natalie person is, that would be me.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Your Background
« on: January 03, 2011, 04:40:27 AM »
Cool--I might take you up on that. But probably not until this semester is over.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 02, 2011, 08:04:28 AM »
You bet.
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Reading Excuses / Re: What We've Learned in 2010
« on: January 01, 2011, 01:36:35 AM »
7. Never saying "good luck" on opening night is not just a theater superstition, it's a fact. I have the scar to prove it.
Sounds like there might be a story in that one somewhere.
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Reading Excuses / Re: Your Background
« on: December 30, 2010, 09:46:51 PM »
Sweet, someone else who writes musicals! (Okay, that makes it sound as if I've actually written musicals. I haven't--I've written songs and I've written stage plays, but the one musical I actually set out to write petered out when I realized I didn't have a story. Still working on it. 
)
Anyway, welcome to the group!
)Anyway, welcome to the group!
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: December 30, 2010, 02:15:42 AM »
I didn't have a s many problems with the ending of the Amber Spyglass as I did with the Subtle Knife. But speaking of books that I'd like to throw at a wall, Twilight is just as bad as advertised.
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Dan Wells / Re: Website name (Fearful Symmetry)
« on: December 28, 2010, 08:03:51 AM »
"Fearful symmetry" is a quote from a William Blake poem, "The Tyger," since you asked... 
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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: December 27, 2010, 12:20:25 AM »
Go for it.