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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    To be honest, I just googled "violin concerto" and went to videos, listened to a bit to make sure it was what I meant. I like classical music well enough, but my knowledge of it is limited to the very big names.
     
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    Well, you picked a damn fine example of what a violin is supposed to sound like.
     
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    Serious question and not intended as sexist, but why are the vast majority of women so unsatisfied with their natural hair colour?? It's almost as though to be seen with their natural hair colour is some kind of crime.
     
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    I believe, being a woman, that there are many reasons for changing your hair color. It's not always about not being satisfied...
    My mother dyed hers red from brunette because my dad made a comment about how beautiful red heads were. She then wore it that way for the next 20 some years.
    I myself kept mine natural until my 30s and the grey scared me. Obviously I had some deep seeded notion that grey meant old and I kept that notion for many years. I am over it and letting hair be what it will be and just appreciative I have hair.
    I have daughters and their friends that color parts of their hair blue or purple or green....just for fun, a little like wearing makeup or getting a tattoo or wearing different colored socks.
     
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    I have some bad news for you: more often than not it means exactly that.
     
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    As a man I've dyed my hair a few times - when i was younger i had blue and red tints in the fringe - more recently Ive dyed it back brown from grey until I gave up that unequal struggle
     
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    When I was in high school, it was green or blue or purple, depending on what crappy 1980s hair dye I could get ahold of. So jealous right now of the kids with iridescent dyes, that would have looked great in my mohawk.

    Right now, I've got some nice grey coming in around the temples that I'm pretty happy with, and if I let my beard grow out there's a bit of streaking there. Twenty years ago, this would have made me unhappy.
     
  8. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Oops! I just realized that my fantasy doesn't even have magic or rules governing that magic despite my main character supposedly USING it!

    I am ashamed...
     
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    ... What?
     
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    I see zero problem with this. Big encyclopedic magic systems make me twitch. Writing lightweight magic and then later deciding if it feels internally consistent seems fine.
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    While I'm happy with just a basic magic system, have you noticed I keep jumping my setting from one point to another? I never sat down and really figured out how the inner structures of the world is supposed to work. How do they govern? What sort of festivals do they have, etc. For goodness sake, the story opens up with an attack on the Empress' coronation ceremony.

    My main character, Mishu, is blind, but can see using Soul Aura. I would think that would require at least a page of worldbuilding notes to explain it. And God help me with my sci-fi. :[

    Basically, I've little to no clue how anything in my stories is supposed to work and if it's all supposed to be about a magical global war, yeah, I think it demands a lot of world-building.

    EDIT TO ADD:
    OK, so let me just clarify exactly what I intended to do with my writing...

    -> Write a fantasy that's basically a MAGICAL WORLD WAR.

    -> Write a sci-fi that's basically a galactic civil war in the Milky Way galaxy.

    -> Write a historical mystery set during the Revolutionary War, and later 1821 Paris and Coupvray, France.

    Aaaall without the slightest bit of worldbuilding...

    I'm gonna go ahead and hit my head on the wall. Hope that'll loosen up the stubbornness that is my head.
     
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    OK, got it.

    If it helps, my world-building tends to be like that too, and I'm starting to flesh mine out :)
     
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    Oh. Wait. I responded to this in @Link the Writer 's progress thread. It's also here? Here, I can pontificate! (I figure that in someone's progress thread, my level of pontificating should be limited. :))

    So as I said over there, most of the facts of my world were created to fit the emotional needs of the scene they were in. My female protagonist just washed up (almost literally) in a new location, and I didn't plan that location a tiny little bit. But a scene needed certain laws with respect to marriage and marital property, so I declared those laws, juuuust enough to guide character actions. The same for laws with regard to criminals. The same for certain societal customs. Soon I'm going to care how that country handles its borders--and I already know it's a fairly big country, because the plot needs the characters to be quite far from those borders. And so on.

    So the setting builds up, fact by fact, each new fact being built to be consistent with the old facts.

    Planning? Nah. Not for me.

    Now, my demand for all this flexibility is the reason--pretty much the only reason--why I'm writing in a fantasy world in the first place. I wanted to own the reality, so it was going to be fantasy or science fiction. If I were writing historical fiction, I'd have to work a lot harder, and the story would probably range over a much smaller area, because I'm just not willing to do all that much planning and research.
     
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    I hate writing my MC's thoughts about the woman he's going to fall in love with. He comes across as a jealous, possessive misogynist in his head, though his actions toward her are in keeping with how a 35-year old man should ideally act toward a woman. But all the inward pining and senseless jealousy he has no right to partake in keeps coming up.

    I could play it off as him learning not to do that crap and get his head screwed on straight over the course of the book, but I'm pretty sure the scene I just wrote makes him a misogynistic asshole everyone's going to hate. I kind of hate him right now and want him to stick to what he's good at: mopping floors and killing zombies.
     
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    Aaah, thanks, ChickenFreak. :) That was basically how I worldbuilded, just created facts as I needed them. Heck, Kenthew randomly dropped a fact to Mishu how there’s a horrid punishment that always await any Devonian who doesn’t attend to a ceremony that celebrates their leader’s coronation.

    I like pantsing, almost to its logical extreme; it’s how I write.
     
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    I just opened an email from Chanel, and was looking at it in confusion, thinking, "Why does the picture show clothes? And where's the bottle?"

    Oh, yeah. Chanel does things other than perfume.
     
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    I used to let hair stylists do whatever they wanted to my hair, which meant I had varying levels & styles of short cuts (pixie, asymmetrical, bob, etc.). I don't know why, but every hairdresser has an irresistible urge to lop off some or most of my hair—even when I started telling them I wanted to grow it out.

    Anyway, around third year of high school, my then stylist decided to put a patch of blue in my hair. I magically did not get in trouble with the private Christian school I was attending, and the stylist started doing other things with colour.

    Eventually, it was no different than a haircut. If I got bored one day or if I was unsatisified with myself, a little change was all it took to lift my spirits. And I knew I had to do all the crazy colours now while I was still young & had no children to embarrass or a career that forbade it.

    Now I'll probably just keep to various natural shades, as I assume the law firm does not consider purple as abiding by the professional dress code (more's the pity).

    I actually love my natural hair colour. It's a pretty shade of dark/medium brown with a reddish-orange undertone.

    I just crave change, and dye is an easy fix.

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    When I was in high school and wearing my hair in a mohawk, dyeing it, wearing eyeliner and black lipstick and all that, people asked me why I was doing it.

    I told them it was the right thing to do at the time, and I'd look a fool if I did it later on. Now I wear tweed jackets, waistcoats, and brogued shoes that cost way too much, and I have no regrets about either of those style choices. The years I wish I could do over are the chinos and polo shirt because it was a safe look ones.
     
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    Yeah I had ideas about being a rock god (if only I'd had the talent to match) so it was all tie die shirts, originals, bike jackets and bandanas I remember my then girl friends mother washed my 501 originals once :eek: she just didn't get why i was like Noooooooo

    Of course i looked utterly ridiculous looking back, but at the time we thought we were cool as fuck - Translucent aardvark strutting around Uni like we were the bastard sons on Bon jovi and Bruce Springsteen we had the guitars, we had the girls, we had the world in our hands, CBS didn't know what they were missing.. if only (if only we'd had the ability to play anything original that didn't sound like the middle bit of sunshine of your love )

    I couda been someone I coulda been a contender... I coulda been a bar tender more likely...

    ETA (we had one original song i found the lyrics of the other day called "we won't bow down" which include the immortal words

    "they wanna make us a tiger economy
    to compete in this day and age
    I don't know 'bout you, fucker
    but I won' live inside their cage"

    Born in the USA, it wasn't
     
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    A friend of mine reminded me of the existence of Akinator, so I played a couple rounds and successfully stumped it with one of my favorite comic characters. I'm more proud of myself than I should be :D
     
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    Well, that's 15 minutes of my life that Obi-Wan Kenobi, Deadpool, Sam Spade, Indiana Jones and I are never going to get back.
     
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    You and all of them are welcome :D You gotta think of the obscure shit. It's fun getting wrong guesses - on the way to (not getting) Cameron Chase, it guessed Black Canary and ... 'your oc'.
     
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    I have defeated the genie by picking Dexter.

    From Star Wars Episode II :twisted:
     
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    ... Consider me also defeated. I have no idea who that is even after googling him.
     
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    Jettster? Obi-Wan's friend? The fry cook?
     
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