Activity for Ludi
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| Edit | Post #31331 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #31306 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #30215 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #22365 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #22175 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: How can I indicate that a particular relationship between two male characters is purely brotherly (Philia) rather than romantic (Eros)? Explore your setting What is your setting? As a modern Greek, when a man is married, nothing short of kissing the other man on the mouth will make me suspect sex between them. Because normally (all exceptions deeply respected) marriage in a modern setting signals for me: „I have very strong personal... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Authorship implications of presenting one’s manuscript as an older one in the prologue Umberto Eco, E. T. A. Hoffmann and others have pretended (in the introduction to the story) to have found and edited obscure old manuscripts. In my view this added to the charm of their writings. If I attempt such a thing and do it well, do I risk the publisher denying my authorship and rights? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Is there anything like Patreon for German authors? I spent quite some time on the website of Patreon and wasn’t able to find but two authors of German language novels (both in the fantasy genre). It seems that Patreon hasn’t got any German speaking followers to speak of. Is there any other platform, where an author writing in German could crowdfund h... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Online resources searchable for example sentences from literature I know several sites that provide plenty of example sentences for a given word, but they are usually rather colloquial. I also have one dictionary that provides example sentences from classic English language literature for many entries, but it can naturally only list one or two examples. Would the... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Going from worldbuilding to writing a short story In the past I never had the urge to write, except for poetry, which has always helped me to deal with my emotions. Lately, I have done a lot of world building. Rarely with the intention of writing a story. I just ask myself something like, "what would happen, if our lifespan was dramatically longer?"... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |