Fandom Snowflake Challenge
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ysabetwordsmithFandom Snowflake Challenge Day 2
Day 2
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
My mother read me The Hobbit when I was four. This is an early benchmark for several things that have spread throughout my life: I associate reading with love and intimacy. I love xenolinguistics, and I still like referring to a museum as a "mathom-house." I learned the mechanics of hurt/comfort from Master Tolkien, so if you like the way I write it, make your bow to him. I observed that by providing moments of comfort, it was possible to crank the tension much higher without burning out the author, the characters, or the audience. I learned worldbuilding and poetics here too. I love creating detailed landscapes and characters, then just watching what happens. I love the sound and the mouthfeel of words, twining them into intricate shapes like dwarves making treasures out of metal. I don't think reading this book "changed" me, but it did resonate deeply and leave a mark. It was more like a reminder of who I am. Oh yeah, I remember that -- I'm a storyteller, a worldwalker, an adventurer. Yes, when I was four.
If you want to see some of where this has gone ...
A Conflagration of Dragons is directly inspired by an analysis of the economic impact of Smaug on Middle Earth. I multiplied the intensity by about 400. I also used many of Tolkien's worldbuilding techniques, which you can see in some of the notes I have published for this series.
Love Is For Children is one of my spectacular hurt/comfort series, Avengers fanfic. The Moon Door is original, about lycanthropy as a chronic disease.
Path of the Paladins is an example of my fantasy writing in a rather messed-up world.
Some of my lyric poetry:
"Folk Tales in 4/4 Time"
"Salt from a Dead Woman's Table"
"Like Jewels on a Ring"
Day 2
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
My mother read me The Hobbit when I was four. This is an early benchmark for several things that have spread throughout my life: I associate reading with love and intimacy. I love xenolinguistics, and I still like referring to a museum as a "mathom-house." I learned the mechanics of hurt/comfort from Master Tolkien, so if you like the way I write it, make your bow to him. I observed that by providing moments of comfort, it was possible to crank the tension much higher without burning out the author, the characters, or the audience. I learned worldbuilding and poetics here too. I love creating detailed landscapes and characters, then just watching what happens. I love the sound and the mouthfeel of words, twining them into intricate shapes like dwarves making treasures out of metal. I don't think reading this book "changed" me, but it did resonate deeply and leave a mark. It was more like a reminder of who I am. Oh yeah, I remember that -- I'm a storyteller, a worldwalker, an adventurer. Yes, when I was four.
If you want to see some of where this has gone ...
A Conflagration of Dragons is directly inspired by an analysis of the economic impact of Smaug on Middle Earth. I multiplied the intensity by about 400. I also used many of Tolkien's worldbuilding techniques, which you can see in some of the notes I have published for this series.
Love Is For Children is one of my spectacular hurt/comfort series, Avengers fanfic. The Moon Door is original, about lycanthropy as a chronic disease.
Path of the Paladins is an example of my fantasy writing in a rather messed-up world.
Some of my lyric poetry:
"Folk Tales in 4/4 Time"
"Salt from a Dead Woman's Table"
"Like Jewels on a Ring"
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Date: 2017-01-03 12:15 pm (UTC)"Like Jewels on a Ring"
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