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22779864 No.22779864 [Reply] [Original]

>author keeps naming a bunch of plants that I don't know the appearance of so I have to continually Google them to see what they look like

>> No.22779935

Heavily filtered

>> No.22779940

>he's not a botanist
KEK you know paper comes from trees right?

>> No.22779944

>>22779864
Old writers really knew the names of trees and flowers. Not surprising. In the past people lived in the countryside much more, and there was much less other stuff around to know about.

If you want to write a fantasy novel with the traditional low-tech setting you really need to know which trees grow where and which flowers bloom when and which flowers grow near which trees and which plants live in waterlogged areas and which birds live in which sorts of hedges and so on.

Most flowers have really nice names. There are ten thousand euphonious words dedicated to basic flora. But what do they all mean? What colour is a cyclamen? What are anomones? How many foxgloves does it in fact take to make a glove? No-one knows.

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22779972

>Reading Into The Wild
>Have to constantly google plants, geographical features, weather conditions, landmarks, animals, mountain climbing tools and equipment, verbs...

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22780003

pretty flowers

>> No.22780832

>>22779944
>Old writers really knew the names of trees and flowers
Nope, they just used encyclopedias when writing lmao.

>> No.22781817

>>22779864
>rhododendron
a flower
>chrysanthemum
a flower
>alstroemeria
a flower
just ctrl+f in your head

>> No.22781821

>>22781817
i meant ctrl+h i am so sorry