Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)'s Notebook

Oct 11, 2016 at 11:45am

Sigh. . . does anybody else have as hard of a time brainstorming as me? I have great building blocks to a book so far, and even have 100 pages of it written from my first nano, but I really lack a deeper plot. Well. . .unique plot I suppose. It just always feels like my ideas start running the same course as every fantasy book already in existence. Dang it brain! Give me something good to work with! Sigh. . . is my creativity dying?

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SB Musing

Oct 12, 2016 at 12:35pm

Fantasy is sometimes a hard one to be unique on even though we're making new worlds never seen before. Don't give up, I always find inspiration reading my favorite fantasy books and seeing what they did 'right' about spinning it unique in their own style. Keep at it!

Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 17, 2016 at 9:58am

Thanks for the encouragment! ^_^ I need to practice some brainstorming techniques or something.. lol

Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 17, 2016 at 9:57am

Just a reminder, it is now mid October. Hurry and enter even a short piece in the "Invalid Item"

! Some people are missing out on easy merit badges, not to mention their season spirit!

New and Old items are accepted, so if you don't already have a piece to place then I think your portfolio is in need of a new addition!

Right now you could come in and practically steal 2 merit badges at the rate everyone's spirit is lacking. So come in and spill your guts! Pumpkin guts that is. . .

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Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 6, 2016 at 10:14pm

Silly question. Is Tolkien's elvish language copyrighted? Upon digging into that, I find that I keep getting mixed information.

How long do you think it would take to create a language from scratch?

On that note. . . Who has created their own language?

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CJ and Muse

Oct 6, 2016 at 10:54pm

I thought it was an actual language... don't they teach it at Oxford (or one of the other big British Universities)?

CJ and Muse

Oct 6, 2016 at 10:58pm

Also, Katherine Kerr uses elvish language in here DaggerSpell series. I do know she had issues with some scholars because she removed all the accents for ease of reading...

Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 11, 2016 at 11:49am

Interesting CJandMuse! That's where I keep running into the clarity of it all. It's an actual created language, and a taught language, so how does that fall under copyrighting? But at the same time, it is his works and used in his books/ inspired movies etc. It seems like it would be copyrighted, but I couldn't find clear info on it when I was looking it up. lol

Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 6, 2016 at 10:13am

Hmm. . . Well, this is my first notebook rambling. Anybody prepping for NaNo? Can anybody even see this? Hello? (echo. . echo...echo)

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Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 6, 2016 at 12:43pm

Hello Ghoulishly! I'll have to keep an eye out for your posts. ;) I haven't had a chance to get on the forum a whole lot yet other than to fill out an entry log. As much as I'd like to cross a 2nd nano finish line (1st was 2013), this is literally the busiest year of my life. But, here I am biting off more than I can chew, lol. At least I've kept ahead of the 72 hr mark yet for prep, heh. So, here's to hoping! And Good Luck to you!

Elle - on hiatus

Oct 6, 2016 at 4:57pm

Yup, definitely prepping for NaNo. Are you using the assignments over at the "October Novel Prep Challenge"

Self-Asylum (Nichole Sauve)

Oct 6, 2016 at 7:12pm

Yes. :) They've been pretty helpful in getting me to finally get to work on a building a world, although the assignments are slow going. I'm going to continue on my first NaNo book for this one. When I first started I just wrote. Literally had not even one character name, lol. Actually turned out pretty good despite that, but now I'm excited as I build a better picture. Just needed a little arm twisting. ;) How're you guys doing so far?