The PPC Posting Board - Latest posts

Also - should Le Jai bring a cardboard sign? Y/N?

Can anyone remember the exact details for this - i.e what time we're supposed to be meeting?
Also, who's coming?

Trojie should have my lines in her inbox.

~Neshomeh

It's cool if LotR isn't your bag, but comparing the classic foundation of an entire genre of literature to common songfic is not going to sit well with many people here. Just so you know.

The following isn't personal, it's just me tangentially explaining what I think.

Language and thought are connected. There was a time when speech took as long as it needed to say what was meant, before TV and the Internet came and thoughts were reduced to sound bytes and then became as stunted as the contents of the average text message. Maybe there's no room for lyricism in modern language, but I, for one, think that's an unfortunate loss. How do you learn to think in beautiful language if you never experience it? What can we say about the contents of our thoughts if we can't express them with some finesse?

I'm not saying that all language should be flowery and poetic, because that gets annoying, but there's a big difference between a songficcer inserting lines of pop songs into their writing because they thought it would be cool, and Tolkien inventing a little rhyme because, for that moment in the story, it said exactly what he meant it to say. That's part of what makes a great writer, after all: The ability to impart great meaning with a few carefully chosen words.

I'm going to get off the soapbox, but I close with a quote from Charles de Lint's "The Conjure Man," which sums up what good writing is all about:

"The stories are just stories--they entertain, they make one laugh or cry--but if they have any worth, they carry within them a deeper resonance that remains long after the final page is turned, or the storyteller has come to the end of his or her tale. Both aspects of the story are necessary for it to have any worth."

~Neshomeh

or something on those lines.

admittedly, I'm a little fuzzy on the details of Myst, but aren't Sirrus (is that even the right spelling?) and Achenar brothers? the author shouldn't put this one under "family/general" if I'm right.

sometimes I feel pretty ancient. *grin*

Thanks for the Ypur. How did it get that name?

I was just posting as a reminder to mke sure everyone wouldn't forget. We don't have any rush. There is NO deadline.

I'll just be posting a reminder, maybe once every two to three weeks, with an updated list of who's handed in their lines. It's a memory jog for the people whose memories aren't too good, not an accusation or a request to hurry up or anything.

Iza: HEY!

I'm looking forward to hearing them!

Which is good and probably more convenient. I'll be mailing them soon!

send them to me and I'll see what I can do. It's just .aup that I have a problem with because without the entire data folder that Audacity makes with each .aup I can't open it.

Oh my God, a dinosaur. Why aren't you fossilized yet? *pokes suspiciously* At the very least you should've been stuck in a tar pit. Or frozen in a glacier.

...what I mean is, um, hi. And a Ypur is a furry blue yak thing with spiky horns and a taste for sausages, born from a spambot's typo. You can make scarves out of its hair if you want.

Sorry, my memory is sort of shot to hell...

Got them recorded, only to realize that they're in .wma. Which is unhelpful. Just need to figure out how to either convert or how to record in mp3.

But I'm on it, I promise!

Only kidding. I'll post on the Board every now and then. And if I get any notes from Trojie I'll add them. Plus, anyone who is on my MSN or other messengers will receive innocent, completely unpressuring enquiries into how they're doing with their lines.

I just posted a reminder to nudge people a bit. I'll be doing that periodically, hopefully with a smaller list each time.

But no rush. We have no deadlines to make, seeing as this is a community effort and we have to fit around everyone else's lives.

You take as long as you need to.

I just finished the final exam for this half of the trimester last night, so I should be able to do at least two characters in the next two nights. At the very latest, you'll have them by the end of next week.

But you'll have to remind me every so often. My memory's not terribly fantastic. :P

Job searching, working on OFUR alone since Kit was busy with his exams, and lack of a functioning mike kind of got in the way. I will get it done ASAP.