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  • Andrew Shepherd
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    October 18, 2015
    I guess that's the beauty of this kind of fiction. The myriad creative ways that ideas and feelings that can be expressed without being wholly grounded in reality.
  • Andrew Shepherd
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    October 18, 2015
    I'd like to see this topic actually Okan. This is something I've always had trouble with. It reminds me of Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets when a woman asks him how he writes women so well: "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability"
  • Andrew Shepherd
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    October 18, 2015
    So devices like: "Sotek's tail slammed down in fury" would be necessary until readers cottoned on to the significance of tail slamming.. That's very entertaining actually.
  • Exuro
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    October 19, 2015

    Who was that told me to just go drag to get in to the mindset...

  • Exuro
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    October 19, 2015

    To add another example of body language, sometimes I like to use the space between characters. If they don't trust the person they may keep at least an arm span's distance away, but if they're close friends they might bump shoulders as they walk.  In one scene (not posted yet) I have Amari stay near Silver when meeting a new town of people to show her clinging to the one familiar thing in a town she knows nothing about.

  • Andrew Shepherd
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    October 19, 2015
    I think it works better to get into the mindset of a drag queen Exuro. Did it work for you?
  • Exuro
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    October 19, 2015

    I am the Dancing queen, only sev'en-teen

  • Andrew Shepherd
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    October 19, 2015
    He likes the nightlife, he likes to boogie...!
  • The Long-Chapper
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    October 19, 2015

    I know this book and watched the miniseries. Good times. The 1980s had some epic tv.  Yes, I use internal dialogue quite a bit, especially with Altmer as I portray them as more emotionally restrained on the outside, though Albee's been in Cyrodiil for a long time and is more relaxed. His whole interaction at Dustman's cairn, though, was one giant internal argument. 

  • The Long-Chapper
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    October 19, 2015

    Yes, I wanna see this topic too. 

    We've watched a lot of the same movies, Andrew. 


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