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He looks a bit concerned to me, but...if he can't figure out how to mate, I mean...What's the point? Maybe he's into red pandas. -
A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Sad panda?
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.For the record, I hate pandas. They're idiotic, aggressive, often unable to mate in the wild because they can't figure out how to. It's...
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Re-reading Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey. Read it once in my youth. The physical book disappeared long ago, so I bought an...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Has anyone tried writing a modern epic?.Have you had a chance to check out Emily Wilson's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssy? I think you'll appreciarte her perspectioves...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ?.Then we get the real fun. Nailing the timing, which is often an auditory thing, in text where you have little control of how a reader...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ?.Twelfth Night. Probably my favorite.
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ? with
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Comedy and humour are very complex. You can illustrate both the funny aspects of life and also the sad side of things, and it is this... -
A. E. Lowan replied to the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ?.In that humor relies heavily on social cues to make the funny flow, like timing. Timing is crucial to humor. And timing is also crucial...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Okay, I need to ask. Why the SFWA hate? I think I've missed something. And we're talking about the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers...
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I really do learn something new everyday!
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Last time I had a safe link to the numbers, I think pirates have put more of our books in hands than we have. Which is a bit frustrating...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Is it possible to have non-cliché dwarfs?.Tanya Huff does some cool stuff with the entire Human, Elf, Dwarf dynamic in her Valor books. Military SciFi.
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Purple Prose and playing with words.Good move. "In an ironic twist of fate." Totally needs to die. Although, "The door to our bedchambers clicked shut with a precarious...