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    Merie replied to the topic hullo peeps! in the forum Introduce Yourself 4 years, 1 month ago

    @rose-colored-fancy

    LOL, it’s less impressive than it sounds XD I only really learned Latin, and I’m not great at it. The others were just picking it up like a mother tongue. I never really learned it, I just… know it XD

    Doesn’t that make it more impressive…? I have no talent for learning languages, so I am absolutely jealous, lol. The only things I have really picked up are random Japanese words and phrases from watching anime. Which I suppose would help my intentions to learn Japanese in the near future, but… xD

    LOL, good to know I’m not the only one! What’s the best/funniest one you’ve come up with that way?

    I don’t think any are particularly clever… I know a very, very limited amount of Chinese idioms. Erik and Faëll are always quoting the Dommesan sages, many of whose sayings are fancy translations of idioms like fu shui nan shou, “water poured out cannot be restored” which basically refers to reaching some point in a situation after which there’s no turning back. It’s… literally the most random idiom I could possibly have thought of, but it sticks in my head because of the story behind it xD

    Ooof I can imagine how hard that is! That’s really cool!! I have friends who learned Chinese and they had a similar “I can speak it but writing???” issue XD

    *weeps*

    I relate so much to your ‘actual mother tongue’ being your weakest language XD That’s awesome! And I have the same issue in German with “I know the words but I can’t put them together” XD Languages are h a r d 😭

    Lol exactly!

    Exactly! I’ve seen love triangles done well, but I’ve never seen insta-love done well, ever XD

    Most authors just seem to confuse love at first sight with attraction at first sight, which are two totally different things. And I mean, I’ve heard of people whose love stories start out with “I saw them, and I knew they were the one” but you could have been wrong… There’s no way to prove that just because you felt it was so, that it was so T_T

    However, I like the way it’s mostly just a really close friendship, at least to a certain degree. I can write that and that part is fun!

    I totally relate. Romance is h a r d. –says the person who never even gets that far into a story for things to actually happen

    Yeah! I think it helps to make transitioning into writing romantic stuff easier, too.

    Oh NO! It’s awful when they do that 😭 Yeah, sometimes you have to throw characters in time-out until they behave XD That’s why I love writing dual POV, when one is balking I can write the other first if it’s really split stories XD

    Stubborn Boy’s story is also dual POV, but I don’t exactly want his sister to carry the rest of the book for him, when he’s so darn important too xD

    I normally never write in a single POV… I tried third-person omniscient for the first draft of TFE, but I’m not sure if it’ll stick around. If it does, it’d be mostly thanks to Pax.

    That’s the exact issue I have! Like half the commandments imply there was an Exodus? Some of the laws were given but apparently not others? It’s boiled down to “This is Close Enough” and then ignore it XD Honestly, sometimes good enough really is good enough XD

    Yeah, I don’t think there’s really any need to go that far back. Most of the time it wouldn’t even be mentioned in the story at all, so… We always gotta do what’s best for the story *shrugs*

    Exactly! I’ve often seen MG and YA books where the main characters fall in love but they’re like… fourteen or fifteen??? Like what are these literal children doing? XD Basically, forcing in romance is highly overrated.

    Because everyone likes romance -_-

    That said, I’m addicted to the two-side-characters-who-are-basically-engaged-from-childhood trope… but only if they’re side characters. Heh.

    It’s an awful ending and I would have hated it, but that’s honestly what I thought would happen. Man, this book is dredging up memories I didn’t even know I had. XD

    Oh gosh, I was so afraid that was going to happen too. I feel like it’s what you learn to expect, what with this general type of story! I’m glad it ended the way it did, though, even if it was sad 🙁 It wasn’t tragic or anything, and it didn’t close the door on anything. As you said, it felt real and it made sense.

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