Writing Resources

This forum is for picking apart tricky issues facing any authors in the community. Word choice, action scenes, dialoguing, or plot development. If something isn't working for you, put it up here and see what your fellow community members can make of it. Try to keep examples short and to the point as much as possible.

Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby serbii » August 13th, 2010, 4:34 am

Everything is from The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Even The Epic of Gilgamesh is a rip off of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Wait, wut?
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby Satori » August 13th, 2010, 5:21 pm

Everything is from The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Even The Epic of Gilgamesh is a rip off of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Wait, wut?
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The Bhagavad Gita contests that remark.
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby serbii » August 13th, 2010, 7:17 pm

Gilgamesh is still older, at least in written form.
The date and authorship of the Gītā are not known with certainty and scholars of an earlier generation opined that it was composed between the 5th and the 2nd century BCE. Radhakrishnan, for example, asserted that the origin of the Gītā is definitely in the pre-Christian era. More recent assessments of Sanskrit literature, however, have tended to bring the chronological horizon of the texts down in time. In the case of the Gītā, John Brockington has now made cogent arguments that it can be placed in the first century CE.
Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC
Gilgamesh is more than 4000 years old.
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby Satori » August 13th, 2010, 11:18 pm

Gilgamesh is still older, at least in written form.
The date and authorship of the Gītā are not known with certainty and scholars of an earlier generation opined that it was composed between the 5th and the 2nd century BCE. Radhakrishnan, for example, asserted that the origin of the Gītā is definitely in the pre-Christian era. More recent assessments of Sanskrit literature, however, have tended to bring the chronological horizon of the texts down in time. In the case of the Gītā, John Brockington has now made cogent arguments that it can be placed in the first century CE.
Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC
Gilgamesh is more than 4000 years old.
Did I say anything about the gita being older? Anyway, it was for humor value only.
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby Calinero » August 23rd, 2010, 4:06 pm

Does anybody have a good resource for research into mythology, folklore, and fables?
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby Minion » December 27th, 2010, 3:11 pm

I was checking out most of the sites, and I'm not sure The Medicine Wheel does what it used to or is supposed to do, everything I clicked lead nowhere productive.

I do have an archive to offer, Flights of Fantasy. In the words of the site owner it is "A blog about the fun of fantasy and a world of writing." She discusses many tropes (sometimes but not too often by name) and interesting perspectives. Also added is the commentary from other bloggers, so there are many opinions to be exposed to.
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Re: Writing Resources

Unread postby EllyYuki » September 23rd, 2019, 4:30 am

On the practical and technical points of writing: check NaNoWriMo.
And especially this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.wordpres ... -Final.pdf
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