Recent content by Karlin

I'm a writer, so I get writer gifts. Qin Qin (a Chinese friend) gave me a fountain pen, which I used for a while, then gave up on. When I retired my friends at work bought me a nice Waterman pen, and a bound book to write stuff in. I rarely use either of these items

I'm curious as to which books these are, and which authors. just a few typical examples, not a list of 200 titles

Well, I didn't see the chit chat, I don't understand what you mean by"content", and I don't know what the E word is. So, unless you are are going to explain, I'll bow out of this discussion.

I also don't understand what this is about, or what these " lines" are that you don't want to cross. I'm with the "write more, agonize about your writing less" view.

I am going against the trend here, but: Read, a lot. Write, as much as you can. Worry less about the technical aspects. Karliin

I don't know what you mean by "adventure poem", but, if they exist, someone must have written them...

Hello Gypsilady. good luck with your writing. You've already finished a few projects, so the road is straight and well-paved in front of you. We will ignore the fact that the paving stones are the shells of live vicious turtles....

Quiet in Jerusalem. So far... And thanks for the thread

I've translated a book. Popular archaeology, from Hebrew to English. I don't know what "a strict one-to-one translation" even means. The translation needs to be comfortably readable. Which means, well , interpretation, as others have said. You mentioned Chinese. Chinese uses a huge set of...

Hi, welcome aboard.

WIP is plenty of a challenge as it is. No need for official challenges

I'm reading a book by Agnon . "Only Yesterday". Considered his greatest book. It took him 21 years to write it. (twenty one years, not a typo). Of course in the meantime he wrote many other things. I am curious if he was a pantser. I have someone to ask.

Sometimes I wonder if "worldbuilding" is an independent hobby. A separate activity from "story telling".

I went to a series of talks given by a well know local author, Haim Be'er, and struck up an aquaintance with him. I hope to meet him for a cup of coffee someday, but things have been rather unsettled here recently.

I just read (borrowed, not bought) a Hebrew Fantasy novel, Kharashta, "Witch" in Aramaic. It is based on "Jewish Mythology", though most of what is in there is really Persian/Zoroastriam mythology that was absorbed into Jewish culture during the Sassinian Empire. The head demon is Asmodeus...