Writers' Salon!

[isana]

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.

Comments

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[shipwreck_light]

IRL, "courtier" was just an incidental terminology from the outline I fished out from under my bed. I don't recall exactly why I picked that word, just that I did want to use something besides "assassin" on account of the fact courtiers do things besides assassinate. Manor, Lord, Second, Court of the Manor and such all stemmed from having that word around in the first place. So, oddly enough there are no lords without courtiers. I've been operating on the assumption Doc started out as a term of endearment and isn't called that or perhaps even discussed in The Book of Venom.

And speaking of making weird references, The Book of Venom is a real thing, although much different than the one seen in the story. Google it if you want a LOL.

In much the same way there were no people with othersense before there were wights (yep- that's a cannon factoid), there were no lords before any attempt at reconstructing some sort of government, post-war. I know that much. Someone, somewhere got pissed about the way that was handled. Hence, The Book of Venom which discussed ways to subvert the new system.

The Book of Venom and its unsubtle title were somewhat styled after The Book of the Courtier, although the text is quite a bit angrier and goes into digressions about romantic philosophy.

The oldest lord I have named at this point is Lindersfane, who initiated Aetheon (Duclos's father), but she was definitely not the first lord and did not write The Book of Venom. I would also offer the possibility said author was not emself a lord and may not have been serious about the institution ey invented. Then again, ey could have been ABSOLUTELY DEAD SET SERIOUS. No one knows. That person is lost to history.

Personally, I imagine the author as a daydreaming soldier, perhaps a would-be literature major, scratching eir manuscript away in a foxhole and sighing.

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[bookblather]

Didn't the Book of the Courtier have digressions about romantic philosophy too? I mean, it was a Renaissance text, how could it not.

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[shipwreck_light]

I meant more 1800's denial of rationalism than how to flirt.

Most people who become lords already know that second thing.

Kildeas: *hiccup*

Most.

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[bookblather]

Oh, THOSE romantics.

*judgyface*

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[shipwreck_light]

It could be worse. It could be these romantics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVlxZQwRVI

:D

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

[bookblather]

No, no, those romantics I like! The eighteenth-century romantics had unpleasant habits like running away with twelve-year-old girls and sticking their penises into anything that would stay still long enough and quite a few things that wouldn't. Those romantics actually have pretty decent music.