I just never have the patience to wait 20-30 years while other people fumble through all the steps that suck. New trait? Trait!hero! Boom. Done. If I fuck it up for lack of essential details, I figure the trait-having people will point out what's wrong or missing, and then I can hustle them for trait-written references so I can either fix the first thing or write another thing. It's worked so far.
>>One of the many reasons why I read, prompt, and sponsor.<<
My crowdfunding work: chucking literature into the culture gaps since 2007. \o/
>>I've noticed the concept beginning to show up in more mainstream contexts. <<
They do eventually figure it out. Hardly anyone thinks left-handed people are evil anymore.
>>That's a really neat aural image. Taking it in to see whether it inspires anything.<<
Yay! Some electronic keyboards have a really good "ice" voice or two. A few percussion instruments do. I have an onyx windchime that does.
>>I'll take a look. I usually at least poke a bit at anything of yours that might be a song.<<
Okay, I checked. All the lyrical ones have been sponsored and posted except "Tempestry," the pantoum about temperature blankets. Do you want a backchannel copy of that?
>> "Bonfires on a dark summer's evening". Which is getting me thinking about the bonfires around midsummer in various places, and Lammas night, and the beacons of Gondor. <<
Nice.
>> For a bonfire is not something one makes S'mores over, after all. <<
*laugh* Yeah, we do that. You just have to wait until it burns down to a bed of coals. Unless you like to light your marshmallows on fire, cooking them over open flame is a poor idea, even with a small campfire. They're very flammable. To get a golden brown, gooey marshmallow you need radiant heat rising from coals. Our firepit is big, so we build good-sized bonfires sometimes.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2021-01-17 01:59 am (UTC)I described the whole process here.
I just never have the patience to wait 20-30 years while other people fumble through all the steps that suck. New trait? Trait!hero! Boom. Done. If I fuck it up for lack of essential details, I figure the trait-having people will point out what's wrong or missing, and then I can hustle them for trait-written references so I can either fix the first thing or write another thing. It's worked so far.
>>One of the many reasons why I read, prompt, and sponsor.<<
My crowdfunding work: chucking literature into the culture gaps since 2007. \o/
>>I've noticed the concept beginning to show up in more mainstream contexts. <<
They do eventually figure it out. Hardly anyone thinks left-handed people are evil anymore.
>>That's a really neat aural image. Taking it in to see whether it inspires anything.<<
Yay! Some electronic keyboards have a really good "ice" voice or two. A few percussion instruments do. I have an onyx windchime that does.
>>I'll take a look. I usually at least poke a bit at anything of yours that might be a song.<<
Okay, I checked. All the lyrical ones have been sponsored and posted except "Tempestry," the pantoum about temperature blankets. Do you want a backchannel copy of that?
>> "Bonfires on a dark summer's evening". Which is getting me thinking about the bonfires around midsummer in various places, and Lammas night, and the beacons of Gondor. <<
Nice.
>> For a bonfire is not something one makes S'mores over, after all. <<
*laugh* Yeah, we do that. You just have to wait until it burns down to a bed of coals. Unless you like to light your marshmallows on fire, cooking them over open flame is a poor idea, even with a small campfire. They're very flammable. To get a golden brown, gooey marshmallow you need radiant heat rising from coals. Our firepit is big, so we build good-sized bonfires sometimes.