Sounds like second-guessing by any other name to me. ;^)
Argh! =P I prefer to think of it as re-assessing. Which, okay, it rhymes with second-guessing, I will grant you that.
I think your reading comprehension is functioning without the extra coffee. Although I suppose a caveat should be added to my original paragraph that I can't/won't eliminate all supernatural elements. I mean, shape-shifting is a huge thing in my 'verse, and I picture them as manipulating particles on both a subconscious and subatomic level to do this--and that is somehow "magic" I suppose, or at least to our understanding.
There is a certain level of consistency I've come to require of my work. If the Ainur in my 'verse do "magical" stuff, it has to fit into certain schematics. I think the above shape-shifting thing's a good example of what I'm going for; the characters can still effect things with superhuman powers, but it has to make some level of -sense- to me. If there can be some kind of substance that could absorb light around it, I'd accept that for weird fire, but I haven't got around to considering it much yet.
Argh! =P I prefer to think of it as re-assessing. Which, okay, it rhymes with second-guessing, I will grant you that.
I think your reading comprehension is functioning without the extra coffee. Although I suppose a caveat should be added to my original paragraph that I can't/won't eliminate all supernatural elements. I mean, shape-shifting is a huge thing in my 'verse, and I picture them as manipulating particles on both a subconscious and subatomic level to do this--and that is somehow "magic" I suppose, or at least to our understanding.
There is a certain level of consistency I've come to require of my work. If the Ainur in my 'verse do "magical" stuff, it has to fit into certain schematics. I think the above shape-shifting thing's a good example of what I'm going for; the characters can still effect things with superhuman powers, but it has to make some level of -sense- to me. If there can be some kind of substance that could absorb light around it, I'd accept that for weird fire, but I haven't got around to considering it much yet.
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