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Mad Swede replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....Which is said to be why the late Kenneth Tynan suggested C S Lewis be interviewed for the program. (It should be noted that C S Lewis... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....My own view on this is that too often four-letter words become lazy writing, in that many people use those four-letter words when with a...
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We've been discussing C S Lewis in another thread, and there is a quote from an interview with him (in a TV program discussing eroticism...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.No, it is nothing like that simple. What Philip Pullman is ciritising is dogmatism, blind obedience to leaders (not just priests) and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.That may be so, but what LittleOwlbear was objecting to was the supposed Christian morals in The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.I take it then that you don't like David Gemmell's fantasy books? He admitted himself that he was deliberately putting Christian...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.Except that The Lord of the Rings is not an allegory. If anything it's an example of Applicability in the philosophical sense of the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Have you ever 'swooned' for a fictional character?.No, never. By the time I was old enough to get those feelings I was also old enough to start dating the young ladies I met. There was...
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Thank you. And to reiterate: there are SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF FIRST AND THIRD PERSON. You don't just pick one and go. The POV...
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So, hey, y'all. For those of you who don't know me, I've been here for a minute or two. I have an English degree with a dual...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.I'm having trouble working out how to reply to this, but I'll give it a go. In many ways Omniscient Third Subjective is what good...
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All my books are in Omniscient Third Subjective. The narrator is a character, who either witnessed the story or had it told to them and...
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Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Story Fuel: The Princess Dress Edition with
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Uh... As the lady riding the Black Knight's arm at the ball is a poisoner of rare skill and a wizard of rarer cunning, I think we'll... -
Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Story Fuel: The Princess Dress Edition with Haha.
I'm writing a masquerade ball in this book, so I've been a bit dress-obsessed of late. lol Our characters are going as Lewis Carroll...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.Right, then you're NOT head hopping. What you are guilty of is not choosing a point of view style and then sticking to it. In your...