tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post9220555709204886718..comments2024-02-18T00:11:11.490-08:00Comments on Heroines of Fantasy: Took a walk up to the top of a rock...Heroines of Fantasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07169664399606524540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-52317615541044491012013-07-30T00:22:46.266-07:002013-07-30T00:22:46.266-07:00Sights, sounds, smells, textures, and the feel of ...Sights, sounds, smells, textures, and the feel of elements and objects against the skin -- when they come from a place central to our lives, past or present -- embed themselves in our psyches. They comprise our native language of place. We may learn other languages in our travels. We may approach native fluency, as Karin does in Eolyn. The syntax of those places must be interpreted through the filter of our native language of place. Just as learning our first language shapes our anatomy, our first language of place shapes our perception of all other places.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853739725813642402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764159777348916628.post-43257540817543070842013-07-29T08:03:17.680-07:002013-07-29T08:03:17.680-07:00Fabulous post for this, our 100th blog post. Beaut...Fabulous post for this, our 100th blog post. Beautiful, Mark. Truly beautiful.<br /><br />I took a watercolor art class waaay back in my twenties. The instructor taught us to truly SEE the colors in everything. The Prussian blue of a November sky. The alizarin crimson that lines the horizon at dawn and dusk. Even when you think a sky is "sky blue" it's not. There are so many colors awash within that blue, there if you know how to see it.<br /><br />I truly believe that this lesson has gone a long way in how I write. It's not just the color within color, but the sound within sound. The nuances of touch. I NOTICE now, because she taught me to see the streaks of crimson in an azure sky.<br /><br />Cool stuff.Terri-Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468004163467894720noreply@blogger.com