An Insight by Luke Cowling.
Describing things that have no worldly example is difficult. To make a portrait in words of something conceived of your own imagination that is, is something I struggle with regularly. It's something that has cropped up more often as I continue my progress with Owenoak's elaborate and lengthy successor.
As a result I feel sometimes it helps to point these ideas to pen, and try to describe what I am able to draw, rather than what is in my imagination. You see a drawing in pen is a finite thing, unlike your imagination. It will not evolve as your description is written, it is plainly there for you to describe, and I find this essential to getting an apt summary of something I've conceived.
I did toy with the notion of including these is the upcoming special edition of the NFTMC series. Though I feel they are such rough drafts, and of poor artistic quality, that they would add very little to the encyclopedia.
I do however have a poorly drawn example from my upcoming Owenoak sequel, that I would like to share regardless of my trepidation of its quality. You see it is not something I am publicizing, so perhaps that is the reason for my disregard, though I am not certain.
Describing things that have no worldly example is difficult. To make a portrait in words of something conceived of your own imagination that is, is something I struggle with regularly. It's something that has cropped up more often as I continue my progress with Owenoak's elaborate and lengthy successor.
As a result I feel sometimes it helps to point these ideas to pen, and try to describe what I am able to draw, rather than what is in my imagination. You see a drawing in pen is a finite thing, unlike your imagination. It will not evolve as your description is written, it is plainly there for you to describe, and I find this essential to getting an apt summary of something I've conceived.
I did toy with the notion of including these is the upcoming special edition of the NFTMC series. Though I feel they are such rough drafts, and of poor artistic quality, that they would add very little to the encyclopedia.
I do however have a poorly drawn example from my upcoming Owenoak sequel, that I would like to share regardless of my trepidation of its quality. You see it is not something I am publicizing, so perhaps that is the reason for my disregard, though I am not certain.
I'll not give anything away for it's application, as the guesswork might be more fun than spoiling the characters in which it will feature. I simply wanted to give an insight to the creative process of writing something conceived of imagination. In this example it is armour, donned by a particular protagonist, and some of the antagonists too.
I look forward to explaining it's wear and use at publication, but until then...
LPC.
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