"Legolas, what do you elf eyes see?' "I see a little silhouette of a man." "Saruman? Saruman? Will we enter Fangorn? Oh!"
My 9th grade Lit essay said, "Odysseus was no hero," and I used Don Quixote as my counter-point. It was bad but A-material for a 15yo. Since grad school, I've always wanted to remake it into "The Changing Face of Heroism: Homer to Cervantes," or something like that.
That's how my (Illinois) HS German teacher had us translate "ihr", and I carried that into Latin as well.
If you have +billion $, a PR team, and start acting and dressing differently at 40? Then you are trying to "remake your image." Otherwise, it's just a sparkling Midlife Crisis.
No, I took some licenses, but if you want to use that name, go for it!
I've named story characters after the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension endings in an effort to try to memorize them. I could never figure out names based on 4 and 5.
I see loads of posts highlighting what guys do wrong when writing female characters, but none offering solid guidance. So I wrote a blog. Chaps, please read. I hope it’s useful 👇 www.emilyinkpen.com/blog/writing...
I see a lot of posts highlighting examples of male writers getting descriptions of female characters wrong. Of male writers falling back on tired sexist tropes that place women as props in the male MC...
Some conservatives in this country have never forgiven FEMA for *not* setting up death camps 25 years ago like their fever dreams told them they had.
I'm sure he harbored doubts because of bad portents.
I'm reading Lefebvre for the 1st time. If I were better versed in French Revolution historiography, I'm sure I'd already be cognizant of problems or antiquated ideas in his analysis. But that he wrote this book in part as an anti-fascist, which caused the Nazis to burn it, makes me proud to read it.
