My boy is a genius--Moms can always brag
01/06/2026
I just finished untangling a scene that Aidan imagined. Earlier, we spent almost an hour hashing out the details. He had a sense of what he wanted, but I didn’t see it. I was being too human. It is very important to him that elves should not just be tall humans—or that dwarves are not simply short, powerful humans. The different races must each have their own idiosyncrasies and separate philosophies. They need to be culturally different as a result of their physical makeup and different lifespans. (There are words for that: embodied cognition.)
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