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As a published author, being asked to read other people's unpublished stories is something I get asked sometimes and I always refuse. In... -
I think I would phrase it as change is gradual because it depends on change in people and people are complicated. I sometimes hear...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to The Dark One's post in the thread Purple Prose and playing with words with
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Purple prose doesn't have to be bad prose. Done well, in the right context, it can be fun and even quite literary but it requires the... -
A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Purple Prose and playing with words.My team writes a gritty, dark, and sometimes brutal Urban Fantasy series, and I'm the team's drafter. There are a lot of writers out...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Purple Prose and playing with words with Love.
I would not call either example purple. The second example is hackneyed. The twist could surely be better described. To be purple it...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Yay, Mom! Yeah, I can totally agree with her. I think the thought that somehow got lost in my post was "it depends because people are...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Be afraid. ;)
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I think the not lasting period had already passed. We are now in the knowing age.
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy with Love.
Since I like arguing with people, I'm going to (slightly) disagree with you here. Not on 536 AD by the way. Wonderful time to be alive...
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Petrarch first used the term "dark ages" in the 1330s, criticising what he percieved to be the poor standards of literature in Italy at...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.I love the smell of conflict in the morning. lol Choosing the Rococo Period in our history to emulate has given us a lot of wriggle...
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This sounds a bit like the reasoning for my 'Empire' series. I didn't care for the static tech/static society thing, so that sory - and...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.On the subject of transition periods being somehow gradual... that's not how real life works. So, homework. Search 536 AD. Geographics...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Well, in real life dragons don't often drive Lambos, Demon Lords mostly avoid eating people because that can be so negative, and...