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PostPosted: September 13th, 2010, 1:48 pm 
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I've said that to people before, (cough) namely my sister, PotK,(cough) and they actually looked it up!


Hey! That was a long time ago! :roll:

Once gullible, always gullible. I won't even mention the zucchini/egg noodles incident. Whoops, I just mentioned it. Don't you love me? :D


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Airianna Valenshia wrote:
There seem to be an awful lot of siblings who are not related story wise in this forum. So if you're related by blood but not by story does that make you a once removed sibling? :?


I think so...

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Airianna Valenshia wrote:
There seem to be an awful lot of siblings who are not related story wise in this forum. So if you're related by blood but not by story does that make you a once removed sibling? :?

What do you mean by story-wise?

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You know Griffin, Elanhil and Eruheran are brothers by blood, but not story wise (they don't even exist in the same worlds I think). You are blood related to PrincessoftheKing, but are you guys in the same story together?

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Airianna Valenshia wrote:
You know Griffin, Elanhil and Eruheran are brothers by blood, but not story wise (they don't even exist in the same worlds I think). You are blood related to PrincessoftheKing, but are you guys in the same story together?

Okay, I see what you're saying now. No we aren't writing the same story. You're right, there are a lot of siblings! :D

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Prodigal Son: Developing Stage
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Here are some more:
-It makes you really mad when your brother mixes up Eragon and Aragorn every time. There is a HUGE difference!

-When you talk to yourselfor act out things because you are forming a story in your head.

-You would love to live in a library (but working at a bookstore would suffice).

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1. When you make up words and present them to people as real (as in you can find them in the dictionary type real).


-You use the word "fractall" in conversations all the time now. And people understand you (or act like you do).

-You get funny phrases for your book from your 7 year old brother's mind.
A true example:
Mom: Which way do we turn?
Dad: Right.
Nathan: With a pen, not with your leg.
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*There is a lizard in the sink*
Nathan: Well, you don't see that every day. (Which is hilarious coming from a then 6 year old's mouth!)

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PostPosted: September 14th, 2010, 1:54 pm 
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You're attempting to learn spanish with Rosetta Stone, and you absolutely love the frames when all you have to do is repeat after the lady, because you can be writing at the same time. Related, you absolutely hate the writing ones, because it's very confusing, and you have to keep switching lanuages and grammar. Yes, I'm doing this right now, no, waiting isn't an option, and yes, I'm actually doing quite decently.

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You get ink all over your hands doing things that don't usually involve ink. :shock:

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You dream in elvish languages.

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Willow Wenial wrote:
you dream in elvish languages


Wow! That's pretty deep right there. :shock:

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...when you zone out in class, trying to listen to three conversations at once and imagining what it would be like to hear everyone's thoughts.

...when you're sitting in the woods, pretending you are a character from your book.


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Willow Wenial wrote:
You dream in elvish languages.

That has got to be one of the darn coolest things I've ever heard.
The entire dream, or just some parts?

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LOL! Just parts. There isn't enough vocabulary to dream entirely in Quenya I don't think.:)

I've also been known to sleep talk in elvish phrases.:)

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Nessa- She's given up the veil, the vows she'd sworn, abandoned every effort to conform. Without a word to anyone she's gone her way alone, a dove escaping back into the storm.

Nolan- And though I don't understand why this happened, I know that I will when I look back someday, and see how you've brought beauty from ashes, and made me as gold purified through the flames.

Azriel- And who do you think you are, running round leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart? You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul, so don't come back to me. Don't come back at all...


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That is so amazing! :D

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You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when...

-your Microsoft Word Documents is organized into these categories:
Endless Possibilities
Epic Music
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Hm... I think school is feeling just a tad out of place. ;)

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:D :rofl: :D That is so me. :)


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When you kill your characters and feel such deep sorrow for them, so that you bring them back within two chapters, or change your mind about killing them at all.

When your characters hug you, and you hug them back.


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Mom has only read the first, really rough draft of this story. She isn't into fantasy *gasp*, and she isn't a really emotional reader. (Well, not to the point I am, as far as I can tell. ;)) Last night we were at some friends house, and I started talking about this story. I told them about I had been discussing an idea for another story with my Mom, and she had rather randomly said, "You're not going to kill her brother, are you?!" I told her I had no plans to at that time. After I said this, I went over and tapped my Mom's shoulder and informed her, "I decided to kill her brother." She gave me a puzzled look, thinking I had said I was going to kill my brother. (Heaven forbid!) I said, "Aryn." She shot me a look of horror and said, "WHAT!?" I stated laughing and explained I was kidding. She sighed, "Oh, good," and then I had to explain it to everyone else. Ironically, I haven't really gotten into him yet as a character.


-When you do the two things Amanda just said. ;)

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A few more:

-you hate it when people say elvish because elven sounds so much better
-you never bring any money to the mall (because you don't have any), you go into the fancy dress store and stay as long as possible, maybe even try things on to see how they move, ask all kinds of random questions and leave without even considering buying anything
-Your average sleepover with your best friend goes something like this:
1. hang out in the woods behind her house so you can take pictures of each other for your books (yes you always have a character based on yourself)
2. while near the river (also behind her house) you discuss the highest safe height to jump into water and what it would take to run up a waterfall
3. if you watch a movie or play video games at all it's because one of you was reminded of something the other needed to see (you pick apart every form of symbolism afterwards)
4. you spend half the day just talking while having a computer nearby for every 20 seconds you know you'll need to research something
5. when you go "to bed" you actually stay up til at least 1 practicing martial arts
6. when the lights actually go out you spend the next hour or two bouncing ideas off each other because you can't get a character to do something
7. you wake up at 5 to watch the sun rise and see what creatures are awake
(that was every time with my biffle :D)
-you ask your parents cryptic questions about "problems you're having" so you know what a character should do
-when you can't sleep you talk to a plant because you know it's listening
-you feel better after your plant conversation
-all your friends names on your gmail chat page are in Elven
-you have at least six identical latin dictionaries, hey you never know when you might lose one when you need it most
-people write you off as a "non-conformist"
-you are still mad at the guy who wrote Avatar for stealing so many of your ideas
-you only have one dress to wear on formal occasions, but you have no room to hang more clothing because of your costumes
-you try really hard to be friends with someone you don't like because they can sew or draw really well and you need them
-you walk backwards all winter so no one can follow you
-when your friends want to go for a walk in to woods you immediately charge off the beaten path and don't stop until they say "woah you're like an elf"
-you've tried to go hunting or fishing, but you always get distracted looking for a bird you can hear or chasing bugs
-when you go swimming with friends you stay low in the water until they start to wonder where you are then you calmly make your presence known as if you've been there all along
-when you're with your friends in the dark your favorite pass time is appearing behind people
-people notice that everything you say and do gets really cryptic when it's raining, dark or (the best) a thunder storm
-you went back and read all 9 pages and still had this much to write when you thought about it...

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oh yeah, and
-you made up collaborations with your favorite movies/shows with you as a mutual friend which brought them together to save the world
-go on the dragon themed water ride and as you go past the dragon in the center you scream at it and pretend you've slain it when you reach the end of the slide.

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-you are still mad at the guy who wrote Avatar for stealing so many of your ideas


Oh wow, been there, done that. :D

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Not fair, Riniel! Your friends are so much cooler than mine. :(

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ONE friend, yeah, she's only the best. But she moved so if you're in NC she could be your friend too :D

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Wow, some of those were really funny! I wish I had a friend like that...And I wish my backyard was a forest. No fair! :evil:

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Nope, gulf coastal Texas. Badabopbopbop, I'm hatin' it. At least the beach is close. But the Smithsonian; so, so far *sniff* At least we have George Bush (heavy sarcasm) And our oceans are such a lovely shade of faintly brown.
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-Thinking up an awesome minor character makes you giddy, and you fall so in love with him/her that you really want to make them the major character, but you can't, and you so want to do a spin-off of them, but you can't (at least not for NaNo), and you hope that your book gets popular enough that people will want to write epic fanfictions about that character, but it probably won't. So you content yourself with writing pages about their backstory and family tree, and it all makes you a very happy person, even if there's a lingering feeling that you're going slightly mad.
-You know more about your characters' family trees than your own.

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~ one of your favorite things about Sundays is learning snippets about human psychology from your pastor's sermon and figuring out how to use that information to make your characters deeper and more emotionally traumatized.
~ you write songs about your characters.
~ you wish you could find a Christian fantasy writer in your area. :'(
~ you have already written the acknowledgement page for your novel even though you haven't even passed chapter four... (yes, I did this).


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Riniel! That list so brought back memories. *sniffnostalgiasniff*

Anyway, thanks.:D Some of it was creepily familiar to me.:D

You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when...

Your favorite movies are something like "Lord of the Rings", "Princess Bride", "Braveheart," the "Last Unicorn", and "Swan Princess."

You take a picture of your face and mangle it with photo shop so that you can see how you'd look terribly battle-scarred.

You do not call things "red", "blue", "purple", "green", and "grey", but instead call them "claret", "azure", "Velvet Violet", "Scintillating Sage", and "Starlight".

You actually enjoy writing character analyses for school because they help you create your own characters.

Some part of your clothing for the day always looks like either a pirate, a faerie, or the child of a derranged costume designer.

You've made up so many different ways of writing your name in various elven languages, that you mix up the runes when you write it, thus misspelling your own name!

All of your life, for several years was about making a cheesy, home movie based on a "grand masterpiece" that you wrote when you were eight.

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Nessa- She's given up the veil, the vows she'd sworn, abandoned every effort to conform. Without a word to anyone she's gone her way alone, a dove escaping back into the storm.

Nolan- And though I don't understand why this happened, I know that I will when I look back someday, and see how you've brought beauty from ashes, and made me as gold purified through the flames.

Azriel- And who do you think you are, running round leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart? You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul, so don't come back to me. Don't come back at all...


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:D :rofl: :D Hilarious, these are. I've only got one...

-You creep out/scare your parents by having a conversation about whether daggers or throwing stars are more effective at the dinner table (this happened last night. It all depends on your skill, really, but I think daggers and long knives are a bit more sure with their aim.)


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LOL! That reminded me of something...:D

Your mother goes through your saved "Favorites" bar on the computer and finds all kinds of web pages on what happens to bodies after death, different types of hanging, and all manner of weapons and exploding/flying projectiles. She is a little worried. :D

(And, I agree, Mandy! Also, I think that throwing stars were primarily used to stall people, and get time to escape the scene, so they probably wouldn't be lethal anyway, unless they nicked the two big veins in your neck.)

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Nessa- She's given up the veil, the vows she'd sworn, abandoned every effort to conform. Without a word to anyone she's gone her way alone, a dove escaping back into the storm.

Nolan- And though I don't understand why this happened, I know that I will when I look back someday, and see how you've brought beauty from ashes, and made me as gold purified through the flames.

Azriel- And who do you think you are, running round leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart? You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul, so don't come back to me. Don't come back at all...


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Willow Wenial wrote:
Your mother goes through your saved "Favorites" bar on the computer and finds all kinds of web pages on what happens to bodies after death, different types of hanging, and all manner of weapons and exploding/flying projectiles. She is a little worried. :D


:rofl:

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My name is outward proof of my promise to follow, closer and closer, the words and will of my Lord and Father.


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-You grab yourself by the throat and drive your thumb into your own windpipe so you can describe what it feels like when that happens to your main character. (Yes, I have done this.)

-You're in tears for almost the entire time it takes you to write the last quarter of your novel.

-You fall in love with your most awesome characters of the opposite sex.

-Some of your best story ideas come from the adventures you had with your brothers in the acres and acres of pristine forest around your house.

-One of your main reasons for getting rich is so you can buy swords and daggers and other deadly things.

-You dream of having a part in a big-budget movie made from your book, even though you hate acting.

-You can read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in one day...in about the same amount of time as it takes to watch the extended movies.

-You threaten bodily harm to anyone borrowing your books, to be directly proportional to the degree of any damage they inflict on the books.

-You cackle evilly while killing the hero's love, but cry when you later kill the hero. (I am guilty of this...)

-You make up your own creatures because elves, dwarves, dragons, etc. are always used and you must be original!

-You write a four-minute theme song for each book, to be given to whoever scores the big-budget movie as inspiration.

-You often stare at an object until your eyes get sore, wondering if you could somehow move it with your mind.

-Vampires are vicious, non-sparkly things that should be sliced in half on sight. Werewolves are just regular people who can shape-shift into wolf form.

-Poorly written fantasy books make you furious.

-You consider people who don't like Lord of the Rings to be uneducated weirdoes.

-The list of epic book titles stored in a Word document on your computer is about twice as long as your list of book ideas.

-You seriously do want to name your children after some of your characters.

-Writing up lists like this is a good way to procrastinate the writing of a painful scene.


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-One of your main reasons for getting rich is so you can buy swords and daggers and other deadly things.

-You often stare at an object until your eyes get sore, wondering if you could somehow move it with your mind.

-Vampires are vicious, non-sparkly things that should be sliced in half on sight. Werewolves are just regular people who can shape-shift into wolf form.

-Writing up lists like this is a good way to procrastinate the writing of a painful scene.



These are hilarious!! Particularly the last one. :rofl: (unfortunately, the last one also reminds me that I should be writing in my NaNo, not on the forums.. argh... :evil:)


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Thanks. :D

-You think that all books should be either hardcover (with no dust jacket and fancy lettering), or bound in leather, because paperbacks start falling apart after you’ve read them twenty times.

-Someone asks, “Who are you?” and you whisper, “What iss he, my precious?” (From The Hobbit, Chapter Five)

-You always compare views during hiking trips in the mountains to scenes from the Lord of the Rings movies.

-A chess game makes a good plot for a gladiator fight.


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Haha! Way too much of this sounds familiar. :rofl: I want a friend like yours, Riniel! :(
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You take a picture of your face and mangle it with photo shop so that you can see how you'd look terribly battle-scarred.

Wow! I haven't thought of that, but that gives me a great idea...
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One of your favorite things about Sundays is learning snippets about human psychology from your pastor's sermon and figuring out how to use that information to make your characters deeper and more emotionally traumatized.

I do the same thing with programs on our Christian radio station we listen to. There's a program called Hope for the Heart that I especially like. :D

~You go out in pitch darkness wearing boots, a hoodie, a blanket pinned at your neck, and an iPod.
~You always scan the crowds for random faces to find interesting character ideas.
~Your room is a strange compilation of pictures from catalogs, cutouts from book jackets, and drawings of mermaids and fairies from your pen pals.
~Your main source for story research is your mom's medical books.
~You think it would be good research to go out in the freezing rain with nothing but a T-shirt and pants.
~Bare feet are preferable to anything except tall boots.
~Any picture that looks remotely fantasy must be immediately saved, even though it's illegal most of the time. ( :blush: )

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~ you don't mind horseback riding in the rain... if your characters can do it, so can you! :D
~ you know why horses are traditionally mounted from the left side.
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-You love running around in the rain; it's so inspirational and exciting!
-You wish you could go horseback riding in the rain again.

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LOL! I do the same thing! Except...they're my aunt's medical books. :D

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Nessa- She's given up the veil, the vows she'd sworn, abandoned every effort to conform. Without a word to anyone she's gone her way alone, a dove escaping back into the storm.

Nolan- And though I don't understand why this happened, I know that I will when I look back someday, and see how you've brought beauty from ashes, and made me as gold purified through the flames.

Azriel- And who do you think you are, running round leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart? You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul, so don't come back to me. Don't come back at all...


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Lady Eruwaedhiel wrote:
~You think it would be good research to go out in the freezing rain with nothing but a T-shirt and pants.


Yay! That would be a lovely excuse for a crazy idea like that!

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~Bare feet are preferable to anything except tall boots.


Most certainly.

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~ you don't mind horseback riding in the rain... if your characters can do it, so can you! :D


If I had a horse, I'd do that completely for the thrill of it. Hopefully one day I will own a horse.

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~ you know why horses are traditionally mounted from the left side.


I guess I missed that one?
I do remember the example used for why you should hold on to the horse's mane when mounting. If the horse bolted you don't want it to leave you. Which leads to this--

You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when you imagine being attacked by an army of sorts as you get on your horse and take off.

(unfortunately I've only ridden a few times so I don't let the horse run yet :P)


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...you often think "I'd love to do that some day!". Then it occurs to you that that activity is not possible in the real world. :P

...you think acting would be fun because you get to pretend you're in a different world.


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Acting is more than fun, Arias. It's pure joy. :D


You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when...

Sometimes you'll see a movie, or read a book and you could swear that the author had stolen some of your ideas.

It's inspiring to you to read Old and Middle English.

You love medieval music despite your parents complaint that it's "droning"

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Nolan- And though I don't understand why this happened, I know that I will when I look back someday, and see how you've brought beauty from ashes, and made me as gold purified through the flames.

Azriel- And who do you think you are, running round leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart? You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul, so don't come back to me. Don't come back at all...


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:D

Sadly, I really have no chances to do that. I was in Christmas plays when I was younger, but after I started highschool there wasn't anything. Maybe one of these days I'll find something...


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Evening L. Aspen wrote:
~ you know why horses are traditionally mounted from the left side.

hehe, I know that one :D


~When you have to retell your story to your best friend every time you see them, but only because they couldn't remember everything you told them last time.

~When you stay up past midnight because you're "this close to finishing (insert thing here) and it just can't wait until morning.

~When you've made a binder devoted to your fantasy series and it includes: the names of all the books in the series, a dictionary of all the people/places/things, maps of your fantasy country, sketches/drawings of things related to your cultures, and character outlines.

~When you search the internet for your character's name and discover (with horror) that's it is, indeed, a real name

~You then either find the meaning of said name or immediately go and change it.

~Wikipedia or Google are your most common ways of finding information.

~You practice your character's accents or languages out loud to "get the feel of them."

~You eat books to gain their power (okay, not this one, but it was funny :rofl: )

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My name is outward proof of my promise to follow, closer and closer, the words and will of my Lord and Father.


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Villisë, we must be twins (as my youngest sister would put it)! ;) I totally match all those points, except the first one, but I do that to my sisters so I guess it counts. :D

You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when...

~ when your sister has a friend over and, while walking past the room where you are working, this friend hears epic music playing and the occasional sob or frustrated yell. This friend then asks your sister what is going on, to which your sister replies lightly, "Oh, it's just my sister. She's a writer." (I have yet to have this happen to me, but it would be hilarious. ;))

~ you scare said friend by making a huge fuss over her, saying that she looks exactly like your MC's younger sister.

~ instead of taking pictures of sunsets, you write flowery prose about them.

~ your mother now buys you things that look fantasy-ish because she knows you will love them. :)

~ most of the songs on your "top 25 most played" list are either epic, scary, or otherwise fantasy-ish songs.

~ you spend hours designing the covers of your planned novels, while you really should be doing other things.

~ you enjoy sleeping out under the stars (because you figure that if your characters can do it, so can you!), even though you once got about forty mosquito bites while doing it.

~ you stage swordfights with your sister, film them, and then write them out blow-by-blow to practice writing battle scenes.

~ you really should be working on your NaNo novel, but are procrastinating here instead. (Guilty as charged.)

*runs off to work on NaNo*

And for those of you who are wondering, you traditionally mount horses from the left side because knights would wear their swords on their left hip and it would be awkward to mount with your sword clanking against the saddle. :D


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And for those of you who are wondering, you traditionally mount horses from the left side because knights would wear their swords on their left hip and it would be awkward to mount with your sword clanking against the saddle. :D


Ah.

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