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[shadesong]

You guys realize that I'm giving you, like, an entire college-year's worth of history, intensive, in the course of a day today, right? Just trying to compress stuff and be linear...

Being linear hurts my brainmeats....

And I know you'll say I don't have to do it all in one day, but I'm scatterbrained, and I'll wander off if I don't take you through this.

Atlantans: Oxford Comics and Criminal Records don't have Shooting Star. *pout* I'll e-mail my editor.

I hope that this history course is helping at least a little.

Comments

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

It is.

A lot.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Good. I mean, it would suck if all of this were utterly masturbatory.

[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

why, exactly, would that suck? or, if it really would, then is masturbatory really the correct word?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. It... well, I already know this stuff, and it's difficult for me to be linear. So it would be frustrating if I was doing something difficult and no one cared.

[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

hmm, understandable. well, I care.

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Well, it's helping *me*, at any rate. I've...been aware of some of this before, but not in order. And I am a very linear creature :-)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You're a linear creature, and you're dating me?

Oh, dear.

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

Tsk. Tsk. Being linear does not mean he cannot follow, guide and interpret the non-linear.

Don't put thought limits on his powers. He might take it badly. :):P

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. I could get spanked for that! *hand to mouth*

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

BuyMeToys.com (yes, that's the name of the online AND physical store) didn't have it either, up here in South Bend.

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

I hope that this history course is helping at least a little.

Yes. It helps to tie some things together that I already knew, but didn't fully appreciate the connections between.

Yes. It helps to see what a change it makes to the tone and sense of it to have it forced into your non-preferred mode. It reconfirms you made the right decisions - provide the reference materials linearly, but don't tell the story that way.

Yes. It helps to gain some insight into how one writer thinks about their world and the work of showing it to the rest of us.

Yes. It helps to see any mention of the character I have Such A Crush on. 8->

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

It reconfirms you made the right decisions - provide the reference materials linearly, but don't tell the story that way.

Whew! Thanks. :)

metaphorge and xanadumalion suggested a closed Wiki for shayara.com, so they and I can get all of the reference materials up and straight but I don't have to force my brain into weird positions...

Being linear is so foreign that it almost-hurts. I think wispfox might know what I mean by that and might therefore have communicated it to you. Am I making sense?

Yes. It helps to see any mention of the character I have Such A Crush on. 8->

*grin*

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Closed Wiki sounds like a great idea, actually. I wonder now about doing something like that for the 18-year RPG campaign I play in and part-time GM. Hmmm.

I'd like to put on my datapoint hat for a moment and say that "finding it difficult to do a large brain dump linearly" is not the same as "linear is foreign to me". Many people won't be able to retell what happened in a movie or TV episode linearly without some side trips, backtracking, and "wait, no, this happened first...", etc.

That being said, I think I do indeed have some understanding of the effort it might cost you to attempt a linear dump.

Or more simply - yes, you're making sense. 8->

And yay for my fictional crush object! I'd be totally tongue-tied in person, but I can admire from afar. Mmmm.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Many people won't be able to retell what happened in a movie or TV episode linearly without some side trips, backtracking, and "wait, no, this happened first...", etc.

Mmmm, true. :)

I'd be totally tongue-tied in person, but I can admire from afar. Mmmm.

Hee! True. :)

And speaking of that.... she would be one of the people who gets exasperated with the tongue-tied-ness, though she'd grok it...

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

she would be one of the people who gets exasperated with the tongue-tied-ness, though she'd grok it...

And for her, I'd do something about it. 8->

[aurora-lamour.livejournal.com]

This has helped me a GREAT deal! I have loved your writing but could not make sense of it because I am so much a linear creature. But now I love it AND understand it!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yay!

intuition through logic's funnel

[vitki.livejournal.com]

"Just trying to compress stuff and be linear...

Being linear hurts my brainmeats...."

I'm very much the same way... :)

the weight of the world is upon me
compressing the spaces within
the spaces unite
dark changes to light
and a new point of view can begin

-fec

[mendoza.livejournal.com]

As a fan of both linear and non-linear, I'm enjoying this. One (somewhat random) question: are there any amazonian (size-wise) women in Shayara? Not just the city, but in the story itself. It seems like just about every female of note is tiny, or at least pretty small. As a non-small woman myself, I'm wondering where the bigger chicks are, if anywhere.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, just the Tamrani women are small. Donna's taller. I haven't made a special note of any women being like six feet tall, but there's as much of a size range of Dasaroi as there are in baseline humans.... the height range in Dasaroi tends to be shortest = Tamrani, Narsani; tallest = Bartomni, Lhri'nahri, and everyone else is in between. I guess it's just that two of the main female characters, Julia and Capri, are (at least part) Tamrani.