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: Can I use they/them pronouns in a medieval style fantasy novel? I'm writing a book and I'd really love to include a person with they/them pronouns. However, the novel takes place in a sort
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: Should a fantasy book only have fictional names? My book is totally fantasy, full of made up countries and places, all with fictional names I created, but most of my characters have real names.
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: Can one of my POV characters have the last name Thibodaux and get published? I live in Louisiana, and names with french origins are very common here. So we all know how they're pronounced.
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: Introducing secondary characters The dilemma I find myself in is introducing secondary characters. Say, this character - a family relative - only exists fleetingly in my story. The first time
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: Naming Side characters So, basically, how do you name side characters? I get that you should give the main characters meaningful names, but finding suitable names for all of my characters is
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: How to show a character with multiple personalitites? To preface this, I have seen the question multiple personalities characters speech in text and I feel that my question is different enough,
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: Characters with apostrophe names I have created a world, and one of the cultures has mainly apostrophe names - Vax'Ildan, Vex'Ahlia, Soih'Ym... How would this work grammatically - possessive and
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: How can I learn about the aesthetic rules behind composing new names for things? This is kind of difficult for me to describe, so let me lead with an example. Suppose I tell you there's a
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: Referring to groups and unnamed individuals from groups in a screenplay The following extract is from a screenplay I'm writing. I could really use some advice on how to format it, particularly
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: Would it be bad taste or honoring to name a Starship after historical places, ex: Pompeii? In my book, Earth is gone and are all the counties and a majority of the population and cultures.
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: The seller or the trader I'm having difficulty choosing the seller or the trader when describing a character. He is selling things at a flea market and I personally prefer the seller, the sound
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: How do I refer to an unnamed protagonist in third-person narration? I am writing a story about a man who doesn't know his past, or his name. I have to reveal his name later in the story.
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: Character name change In my story I am writing in third person, my character is kidnaped and finds out his real name towards the end. Do I start referring to him with his real name or the
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: Hierarchies and Role Titles - How do come up with them I'm looking to see what everyone has used in the past to come up with hierarchies and position titles for your novels. For example,
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: Current events may have ruined a name I was going to use In the middle-grade series I'm working on, there are two organizations: one led by the antagonist, and one that opposes them, which
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: I'm having a bit of trouble fleshing out a character I am having a bit of trouble getting into the head of one of my characters. He isn't one of the main protagonists, but he is allied
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: Will naming a character Sindri make it too obvious that he isn't trustworthy? I am writing a middle-grade series where a character is introduced early on as a supporter of the protagonists.
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: Thinking About Fantasy Names One of my favorite parts of writing is naming my people/places/systems. I look up synonyms of common words and add prefixes, or base things off of Latin roots, or
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: Proper use of first-last name in a obituary? I have to write my fathers obituary. I am not sure when it is proper to use a full name. We have kids, grand kids, and great grand kids. Are
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: How to name MC after revealing body change? The plot of the novel is the following: The villain has body-swapped with the MC and I want to keep this hidden and reveal it as a plot twist
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: Naming characters: Physical v. Personality Suppose my fictional character is a plastic penguin which happens to be very pompous. What do you believe is a better way to name a character? 1.A
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: Awkward language translation So I’m currently writing a book that takes place in Finland, though I am American and speak English. My main character’s name can be used as a play on words,
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: Character is called by their first initial. How do I write it? A character's name starts with a hard G, as in Gary. Another character (dismissively) calls him by his first initial "G", said
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: Do we have to introduce the character's name before using their names in a dialogue tag? Do we have to introduce the character's name before using their names in a dialogue tag? I am wondering
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: How should one refer to knights (& dames) in academic writing? In ordinary English usage, one would refer to a knight called 'Forename Surname' as Sir Forename, not Surname, e.g. Sir Forename
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: I gave my characters names that are exactly like another book. Is it a problem? Ok, so, I am currently writing a book and 3 of my characters have the same name as in another novel. I didn't
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: Referring to different instances of the same character in time travel I am writing a story that involves time travel, and I have a chapter where a character from the future interacts with his
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: What are some standards in naming a software/hardware version? I am wondering if how we name a version of a spacecraft differs from how we name a version of a software. For software, I usually
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: What are the ramifications of a character sharing the same name as a famous and established character? A character in my fantasy novel is called Beowulf. I named him such at a time I was
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: What is the art of designing names? If you read names from popular novels you feel like the names define characters. They fit perfectly to the personality of character. For an e.g. Harry Potter,
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: Why do authors use variations on a character's name within a single story? I am having trouble understanding why authors use multiple version of a character's name in the same story. I feel
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: Would it be a copyright violation if I made a character’s full name refer to a song? I want to write a realistic fiction book similar to Thomas Hardy’s works, where he used techniques
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: In a stage play, how should the script refer to minor characters whose names are irrelevant? Problem I'm writing a play that includes a number of minor characters who only exist for a scene
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: In fiction, can I write about Downing College, Cambridge? I have included, in my fictional book, several mentions about Downing College, Cambridge. Now they have a fete on their lawns. Two Russians
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: Referring to a character in 3rd person when they have amnesia A section of a story I am writing is being told in third person from the perspective of a character who does not know anything
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: Is it ok if some of my city names are the same as the ones in other books/series/video games/ pieces of work? My book has a few place names that are also present in other pieces of media,
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: How can I introduce the names of fantasy creatures to the reader? In the story, these fantasy creatures are everyday animals that most people in the story already know. How can I introduce
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: How to name indistinguishable henchmen in a screenplay? A large group of indistinguishable henchman feature throughout my screenplay. What is an acceptable naming method for them? Let's say I wanna
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: How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer? In the point-of-view culture in my story, all of the women in priestly families have two-syllable names beginning with vowels.
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: How to create place names that feel like they belong to a culture? As somewhat of a follow-up to my previous question: How to create a consistent feel for character names in a fantasy setting?
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