[Silvia]

* the crowd oh's and ahs at silvias amazing picture collecting... thingy.* *silvias bows low and is extremly modest*

[pellinor_lover]

thnx loads alison,i send out loads of the same message on different threads so they get answered quicker.soz.hope u dont find it 2 hard writing the 4th book,bet its ganna be brillant! :D well got 2 go,bi xxx....love me xxx

[alison]

Sorry y'all - missed some q's. As you can see, I've been busy tidying up the forum :)

do you have an australian accent?

Yep, I do Emerald_dragyn - but not a broad one, like Steve Irvine. When I'm in the UK it tends to disappear...

Exactly how barren is the land around Gilman's Cot? For some reason I got into my head that the hamlet overlooked a great big pine forest from its mountainous ledge, but when I read The Gift again recently I couldn't find any mention of such vegetation.

Mrs C, it's pretty bleak around there - scarp and scrub. The forest is a distance from the bottom of the mountains - there's a strip of treeless land and then the forests further off, which Maerad would have been able to see.

Alison, when you wrote about Cadvan's past in The Gift, did you borrow some ideas from the Earthsea story because they seem similar to me.

Hi Jennistar - I did indeed (there is a bit of Ged in Cadvan, I admit...) I've always been a fan of Le Guin, and love those books.

And Pellinor_Lover - I spent a bit of time deleting the extra q's - just once should suffice - ;)

[owleye]

the pictures needed to be smaller tho :D :p

[Silvia]

U cant control that.... :mad:

[Tari]

This is a random question but Alison, are you any good with a paint brush or pencil? (drawing & stuff?) And what kind of visual art do u prefer? Told you it was random.

~ Tari

[Celebriän]

Hi everyone been hanging round for ages so finally decided to join :) Erm... oh yeah is it me or at Innail in the Gift when Silvia and Maerad dress to go to the meet Malgorn says that
"Autumn is all mine" but Maerad is wearing red so surely she is autumn? (Just for reference Silvia is wearing green so therefore should be spring).

Just wondered, cos it really confused me when I read it first time :confused:

[owleye]

but you can

[owleye]

if you couldnt be a wrighter wat would you be?

[alison]

This is a random question but Alison, are you any good with a paint brush or pencil? (drawing & stuff?) And what kind of visual art do u prefer? Told you it was random.

Hi Tari - I am hopeless at drawing. Or painting. No talent at all in that direction, so I really admire people who can. What do I like? Gosh. That's such a difficult question. Just trying to think of what I've seen that knocked me out. Brooding work like Caravaggios, sublime paintings like da Vinci's Virgin on the Rocks...crazy stuff like Heironymus Bosch. Of modern painters - Anselm Kiefer, Frida Kahlo, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee - eek, this is very hard to answer. I guess the short answer is I like quite a lot.

Hi everyone been hanging round for ages so finally decided to join Erm... oh yeah is it me or at Innail in the Gift when Silvia and Maerad dress to go to the meet Malgorn says that
"Autumn is all mine" but Maerad is wearing red so surely she is autumn? (Just for reference Silvia is wearing green so therefore should be spring).


Hi Celebrian - that is a bit tricky of me. :D I meant that Maerad is young and Silvia is (relatively speaking) around my age (translated from Bard years, 40ish). I could probably have put it less confusingly...

if you couldnt be a wrighter wat would you be?

Hi Owl Eye - I really don't know. Psychotic? A millionaire? I chose so long ago to be a writer it's hard to think of what an alternative life might have been. I was a journalist for a while, but even that I chose because I couldn't think of anything else that involved writing...