08-16-2006, 04:20 PM
OFF TOPIC:
A culture I made for my fantasy world. They aren't a real group of people, but significant portions of their culture reflect my thoughts and feelings in some fashion or another. In particular this section on love... which I thought heavily over for several weeks this past winter.
More about them will be in some of my original stories, particularly "The Flame of Youth" as I further develop Jason's history from the background summary presently in that thread into a longer more detailed version... I am too accustomed to writing short stories, and need to adapt and change some of my skills to make this the novel I intend it to be.
I try not to overintroduce or overuse words from the Adin, or my other concultures (con is short for "constructed" in that word), whether in my stories or in my discussions, but this was a point where the part of me that identifies most with the Adin said "This is my way to make my stance here clear." English is too vague with only one word for so many different things, while many other languages break it down into different levels of relationship, affection and compassion. So I illustrated how I "break down" love within myself, and how I have had the Adin culture do as well.
Think of it as if Tolkien were making these points about the elves of middle earth, or the hobbits, before publishing any of the books related to them...
A culture I made for my fantasy world. They aren't a real group of people, but significant portions of their culture reflect my thoughts and feelings in some fashion or another. In particular this section on love... which I thought heavily over for several weeks this past winter.
More about them will be in some of my original stories, particularly "The Flame of Youth" as I further develop Jason's history from the background summary presently in that thread into a longer more detailed version... I am too accustomed to writing short stories, and need to adapt and change some of my skills to make this the novel I intend it to be.
I try not to overintroduce or overuse words from the Adin, or my other concultures (con is short for "constructed" in that word), whether in my stories or in my discussions, but this was a point where the part of me that identifies most with the Adin said "This is my way to make my stance here clear." English is too vague with only one word for so many different things, while many other languages break it down into different levels of relationship, affection and compassion. So I illustrated how I "break down" love within myself, and how I have had the Adin culture do as well.
Think of it as if Tolkien were making these points about the elves of middle earth, or the hobbits, before publishing any of the books related to them...