Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just gobbled up the Physicians of Vilnoc. Thank you. But I wondered, when divesting himself of chaos, couldn't Penric rot a condemned building from the top down or kill and rot a tree? (a wistful thought for me since I have several volunteer maples I will need to hire an arborist to remove) It would seem less efficient, but also less fraught.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Hard to say. Doing in vegetation may be too slow a process to dump hot chaos in a hurry; or it may be a skill Pen acquires later on, should a future plot require it.
Revisiting Joen's leashed sorcerers in Paladin of Souls might give an idea of the wilder possibilities.
I have a fleeting memory of Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle doing in the weeds while in a bad mood one day, but I can't remember if she used magic. It may be time for a reread...
L.
Hard to say. Doing in vegetation may be too slow a process to dump hot chaos in a hurry; or it may be a skill Pen acquires later on, should a future plot require it.
Revisiting Joen's leashed sorcerers in Paladin of Souls might give an idea of the wilder possibilities.
I have a fleeting memory of Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle doing in the weeds while in a bad mood one day, but I can't remember if she used magic. It may be time for a reread...
L.
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Sybal Janssen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
There are four writers that I reread and reread because their use of language sparkles for me in a special way. Those four are yourself, Patrick O'Brian, Terry Pratchett, and Vladimir Nabokov. In general would you say that your sentences just flow while you are engaged with the imagination, or do you spend a lot of time reworking your sentences to strike the exact note? LOL probably a question with no answer.
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