whymz
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Post by whymz on Aug 7, 2008 21:14:55 GMT -5
YAHHHHH, I'm stoked that you are turnin' the green for something you enjoy and also are good at! A rarity that all 3 come together.
Now about Galatea. I'm gonna pick that up again and take another read. Is that your first baby? Just curious as it is really catching and could turn a buck. Yet, somethings are just close to the heart and are "priceless".
Generally I avoid reading a lot online as my job consists of a lot of web work (images, text, editing etc.) Yet, I'll make it a point to catch up with your labors.
If you want to use the IM you are welcome to use the site that is on my sig. I can't recall when I started that site. It honestly is mostly a gravesite; but I keep it up. I'm looking forward to hearing from you and how your mum and daddy are doing. She was always a hoot too.
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Post by ansric on Aug 8, 2008 0:37:45 GMT -5
_Galatea_ was the first story I finished; I made it most of the way through the sci-fi YA _A World Apart_ and got stuck a few chapters shy of the ending. I finished it about ten years ago. _Galatea_ could go places; I just want to avoid bad routes and destinations.
I'm thinking about posting the first chapter for each of my unpublished stories. (I couldn't do it for some of the series because they build too closely.) That would be on the ansric.pbwiki.com site.
The message I sent was on this message board; I don't see a signature for you. (I don't generally care for IM, but I thought if I sent a regular e-mail it might wind up in the spam can.
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Post by Frank Creed on Aug 13, 2008 11:38:57 GMT -5
_Spam_Can_ Novel about Ansric, a Colorado guy who invents a language, then writes a bunch of novels in English. He blames the literary faux pas his imaginary friend, Murray, claiming Murray threatened to blow up Ansric's hoot-of-a-mom if the novels had been written in Loglan. SPOILER ALERT Hoot-of-a-mom bakes Ansric a birthday cake packed with silly-pills. It has no noticeable effect, but Ansric's fiction becomes an success of Rowling proportion when translated into Gaelic.
Faith, f
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Post by Caprice on Aug 13, 2008 15:39:47 GMT -5
Why do I get the feeling that I can't even understand the ENGLISH language? That post is either full of inside jokes or it's finally happened and I've gone kookoo. Not to worry. This was expected.
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Post by ansric on Aug 13, 2008 17:07:59 GMT -5
Actually, I didn't invent Loglan; I merely worked with those who did. In an indirect way, it was Loglan that gave rise to the Troika...
_The Gate of Hell_ and related stories use Esperanto on occasion; at that point, Esperanto is the international language of scholarship. I don't have any references to Loglan in any stories, though the original versions of _The Story Machine_ and the as-yet-unwritten _Mars One_ had plenty of them. There's a running gag about an "artificial" language in _Mars One_, which I plotted out back in 1992, as I recall.
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Post by Frank Creed on Aug 14, 2008 11:43:47 GMT -5
Cap-- Murray the Alchemist likes explosions. Everyone likes Ansric's Mom, Ansric knows Gaelic, and his Birthday was a few days ago. Kookoo for Coco Puffs don't count. Ansric-- You've either a time-machine or tense problems: "the as-yet-unwritten _Mars One_ had plenty of them" Faith, f
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Post by ansric on Aug 14, 2008 14:53:49 GMT -5
Actually, I don't know Gaelic; I just know languages. (And I do know some Welsh.) It's not that hard to figure out Gaelic if you have the right background.
I have a habit of plotting out stories even when I know I won't write them for a while. The original mental draft of _Mars One_ had a major on-going reference to Loglan; the current draft doesn't.
For that matter, if you'll recall, I once quoted the closing lines of the entire League of Superheroes series--not just the origin series ("Pandora's Lamp"), but the end of the series as a whole. I often know details like that well in advance of writing the story. Right now I know how _Genie Reborn_ works; I just need to write it down. We even get the final joke in a running series--the closing lines of _The League of Superheroes_ is a kind of wordplay, but you won't get it until the end of LoS 4 (_Anchor Point_).
Anyway, I just tend to do stuff like that.
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Post by cathikin on Aug 18, 2008 1:39:39 GMT -5
"It's not that hard to figure out Gaelic if you have the right background."
Are there really that many people outside of Ireland who have the right background?
This is cool hearing a voice from anric's past in the frozen North. Someone who might actually understand his references to works that no one in the rest of the world have ever seen. He loves to tease.
Whymz, nice to 'meet' another Caprice. Our California Caprice is quite a writer in her own right/write/wright, although I am waiting for the day (as is she) when the thousands of adoring fans dscover what those of us here already know.
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whymz
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Post by whymz on Aug 19, 2008 21:47:03 GMT -5
;D WOW... this thread went wombie! (Sorry Ansric... I just make up my own language too often) First of all I really dig his mum. I know it has been a while, but seems to me she had a wicked sense of humor too. It was mixed with age experience as well. It is cool how you, Ansric, continued with writing. Widget wrote a short story at 15 or so. Best I got was a children's story and greeting cards for friends. I even wrote stories for weddings. People seemed to like them and requested I write for theirs. Now I amuse myself by narrating what the animals say and think as we sit on the porch. I hope you drop a missal to our e-mail. Keep those nostrils flared and those muttons fluffed! All the best, C Oh yah... to the other Caprice - I'm a California girl too. How did you get your name?
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Post by Caprice on Aug 19, 2008 23:03:11 GMT -5
.. to the other Caprice - I'm a California girl too. How did you get your name? My parents thunk it up and put it on my birth certificate. They don't have any better explanation than that. It was BEFORE the car though. I often told people that Chevrolet named the car after me. LOL
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Post by whymz on Aug 20, 2008 14:55:22 GMT -5
Too funny, I was before the car too! I tell people they named the car after me when I was a baby as I had a lot of GAS!
Just for grins - I'm a 1964 what are you?
Just wondering if Dad was busier then than I thought... HA
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Post by Caprice on Aug 20, 2008 20:13:00 GMT -5
I'm a year older. Easter Sunday 1963.
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Post by whymz on Aug 20, 2008 21:07:36 GMT -5
Ok... I'm not into coincidences. So where did your dad work during your prenatal years.... Just wondering if our Dad's worked together and shared baby names. I'd have to tip my hat to you it sounds.
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Post by Caprice on Aug 21, 2008 0:22:07 GMT -5
I was adopted at birth, so my dad didn't really have the typical nine month warning. But he was working at police department for the city of El Cajon (suburb of San Diego). I have no idea what year he made sergeant, but I would guess he was just a patrolman back then. Officer Posey.
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Post by whymz on Aug 21, 2008 21:19:16 GMT -5
Wary interrresting! My folks were from the Santa Ana area. I was an after thought. Must have been something in the water back then!
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