I know I have seen some info on the Shadow Image and associated spells, as well as their internal workings in the prophecy OoC, but not the current variant of it ... let me check whether it was in the text-bits salvaged from the old forum. Indeed, here:  
	[quote=Dark Jack]Furthermore certain spells that are "element-neutral" - that is, do not command a particular element to manifest - but nevertheless contain words in the spellcasting language that refers to an element will cause different effects for someone with that particular elemental affinity. In the Spectral Projection spell (Thoph setogar gohn jhoon, caihl brijhal caihl gothor, peigein brega, translating loosely into "Summon [the] projection owned [by] me, [which] pierces light [and] pierces shadow, [and let that] place [and this] become one") the inclusion of "gothor" (shadow) makes the spell manifest as Gerald's Shadow Image in someone with shadow-affinity (someone with light-affinity would get a third manifestation called Blinding Visage (a spell that creates an image of the caster that glows very brightly, blindingly so to most races, and which allows the caster to sense and speak through this, but not to cast magic, as Shadow Image does) due to the inclusion of the word "brijhal" (light)).[/quote]
	There was a listing of additional Arcane words at some point (which I put on the Compendium site), but regrettably I've not seen a full listing of spells. 

	((Backup. Backup [i]everything.[/i] I know I have everything I've ever written, drawn, played, photographed although I may not know where exactly... Many a thing has been lost in the voids of my backup storage... That's several terabites, so finding something with an obscure name may take time, to say the least.))

	Oh, and my writing process does not have [i]phases[/i] - there are no three separate passes. If anything, it's more like multithreading ... one thread is on the foreground, the two others are in background and either stopped and waiting for their turn or running subconsciously, and my consciousness is (occasionally quite rapidly) switching between them as need be? Does that make sense? 
	- Human consciousnesses are quite good at switching contexts. They're also notoriously bad at conscious parallel processing. Thusly, there is generally only one thing properly in focus, or under conscious attention, but to make up for that, the focus can (for the most part) be switched fairly easily (occasionally the thought you were trying to formulate may be lost when something intervenes). You [i]sort of[/i] can multiple-focus, some people more than others, but it's difficult to uphold and generally tends to fall back to just your usual rapid context-switching. (Note that it's strictly about [i]conscious[/i] focus - the less conscious parts can happily take over things like driving, walking, the actual physical typing when writing is concerned, even some calculations and analysis which isn't memorized ... the latter can be annoying in case people start asking where did the result come from.)
	
	And yeah, the ... more experimental and consultational part of writing. I suppose I see it more as putting the general writing completely on standby until I have the info I need to continue? As in, I wouldn't exactly be in the writing-mode while I'm doing the research... "Taking a break from writing to [...]" is actually quite apt way to put it. 


Edit: 
[quote]interestingly, I seem to have much harder mentally reproducing sounds than I have images[/quote]
	On a random derivative thought, do you, for instance, ever get songs stuck in your head?