Surnames in Fantasy?
You should look at the ways people come up with surnames in our world. Patronymics, names based off where they're from, etc. The SCA website has a very nice explanation of all the ways people arrived at various types of surnames. It's buried a few layers down in links, though. Personally, when I'm coming up with fantasy surnames, I do it the same way as first names.
City Name Generator For Randomly Generating Real and Fantasy City Names!
Jump down to the Generator A city is a continuous area of land where more than fifty thousand people live, work and play. A population lower than fifty thousand is considered a town and higher than about one million is considered to be a metropolitan area. If you are writing a fictional work, such as a book or game, you can use this scale to refer to your population as a town, city or metropolitan area. A good city name will provide a good first impression on the reader or player in a game. This first impression could be a sense that the city is a dangerous place to be for thriller genre or a cheerful name for a kids book or a city that is peaceful.
10 Strategies for Finding Quality Time to Produce Content
Part of my personal and professional job is creating content. Content for blogs, presentations, papers, emails, tweets, you name it. Contrary to popular belief, content can not just be created in a few seconds. It has to be born, nurtured, developed, rethought, rewritten, finalized and published.
Chaotic Shiny
Type: polytheism (slightly patriarchal)Direction: inwardsFocus: reducing physical desires Ruling Deities: The God of Life and the Underworld and the God of Celebration and FireImportant Deities: the God of Tournaments, the God of Chaos, the God of Fear Divine Interaction: only with great heroes Involves: many artifactsAfterlife: is a peaceful place for all and cannot be reached while aliveSupernatural: considered harmless
How to Write & Blog Efficiently with Free Tools like Evernote, DropBox, Picasa & Live Writer
A while ago, I wrote a blog post about . That was over a year ago. Times have changed, tools have evolved and processes have gotten better, at least for me. I still believe that how your blog or write is extremely personal in nature and what may work for me, might not for others. I would, however, like to offer some “best practices” that I use that I have found provide efficiencies for me.
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Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies Cheat Sheet
The Checklist for Writing a Novel and Getting Published Don’t fall down on the easy stuff. If you’re writing a novel and sending your manuscript to a publisher, it has to be in perfect shape. Make sure that you can tick every box before you consider your novel completely finished.
The Checklist for Writing a Novel and Getting Published
Don’t fall down on the easy stuff. If you’re writing a novel and sending your manuscript to a publisher, it has to be in perfect shape. Make sure that you can tick every box before you consider your novel completely finished.
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