Saturday we got off work (newspaper factory) at around 5:00 pm, which is pretty dang good. We were shootin' for 4:30 - 5:00. Anyway, I was doing around 3-4 machines at a time, which obviously knocks someone out. I was in a grumpy mood whenever someone said something about a machine light going off and whatnot. Came home around 5:20, grumpy mood and all, then fell asleep a little over ten minutes later. Didn't wake up until 10:08 pm. After that, I went to bed in my room and had to get up at 8 for a store meeting at the pet store I work at. 14 hours of sleep, people. Wow. I haven't slept like that in a long while.
*busts a cap* SRSLY. Oh--My--God. I'm so sick of some of the fantasy names that I've been reading. Listen, I know they can't be something out of the ordinary from the world. But come on. Make them pronounceable and reasonable to your story. Check some of these out that I've read in a single chapter of someone's work. ----- Vappu - I instantly thought of the Pokemon named Vaporeon as soon as I saw the character's name. Aside from this, look up the name on Google. Quite interesting, really. A day when the whole of Finland is drunk. Liskin - A parody name of the word "Listen"? King Gadwalader - First pronunciation that came to my mind was "God's wallop". I don't even know why, but this name is somewhat absurd enough to be that. Sage - Not necessarily a bad name for the fantasy genre, but it's becoming too overused as a name. I wouldn't mind a remodel of the name, such as: Saij or Saihj. Something...different. Some fantasy names are just becoming cliches. Majorly. Sacha-Gailia - I bust out laughing at this one. Pronunciation in my mind: Such-a-gay-lia'. LMAO. Who wouldn't laugh at that? One of the poorer names in the fantasy realm. Takvor - I don't know about this one. Every time I read it I think of this ugly ogre. "Me Takvor. Me want to thump you on head." Ugh. ----- Okay, enough of those, even if there are more. My mind was threatening to explode just to make me stop reading all of them. What I'm getting at is, think about the names you're going to use. Sure, you can pull some out of a black hat and slap it on a character's forehead. But make sure it fits or the reader won't want to lob the character off of a bridge with sharp rocks at the bottom. Names define people. Think about you being that character. Would you want to grow up in life knowing your name sounded like a black person saying, "Such a gay lia'"? No offense, of course. I'm friends with a lot of black people, and every time I make fun of one person's phrases, he says, "I'm black, it's who we talk, aight?" Cracks me up, but whatever. Well, that's all about names on my part.
Yes, I watch Fantastic Four a lot. Shaddap. Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. *takes out a baseball bat, thumping it against the palm of her hand* ...Man, that hurts after a while. *tosses bat over shoulder* Adverbs are overused, and it's not funny. I get a headache by reading too many in just five paragraphs. Over half of them aren't even needed, thank you! Why choose an adverb when you can put in a verb or adjective that can say more? I don't like over 100 buggy eyes glaring at me through the screen. It frightens me. Without using a lot of the -ly adverbs, you can tighten up your sentence structures. With them...it's almost like you're calling the reader stupid, because they won't figure out another word that may be better. Or heck, you may be telling us you're too lazy to use a better verb/adjective. Not good. Imagine going outside on the back porch. Your neighbor's house to the left has a beautiful garden with a wide array of flowers. Your neighbor's house to the right puts you to shame. Their lawn hasn't been cut in more than two weeks and the same old dandelions are marking their territory on the land. This is how it is with adverbs. Why let them grow and spread? Why not trim them to build your own beautiful garden? Let's read some examples of the ridiculous -ly adverbs. She spoke softly. He ran quickly. The image is beautifully rendered. John hated her immensely. With all of these, you're telling us instead of showing anything. How soft did she speak? How fast did he run? What makes the image beautifully rendered? How bad did John hate her? Let the reader be the character for the moment. We don't care to be told what's going on, let us use our senses. Tell me, would you rather read the above, or the below? She whispered. He ran faster than a cheetah on a sugar rush. The image contained beauty that words couldn't describe. John abhorred her. True, a few of them are downright insane to write. But would you prefer to show the reader a bit more, or would you rather plopping an adverb down and calling it a day? Now that you know I hate the -ly adverbs, let's delve a bit deeper into the adverb world. You already have examples on them modifying verbs, so I'll give you others. Adverbs modify adjectives. In the examples, the adjectives will be in italics, and the adverbs in boldface. an openly creepy look a very fun evening a seriously horrendous accident Adverbs modify adverbs. In the examples, the adverbs being modified will be in italics, and the adverbs modifying that adverb is in boldface. She had a regretfully lonely gaze. The ballerina landed more gracefully than before. That guy eats almost boorishly.
Here's a bunch of terms used in editting to help you all out a bit--for those who don't know what some of the terms mean, that is. Something for everyone to gander at, including myself. I'll get into the grammar terms later, one by one. Hopefully All cap (caps; full caps) - Text that's in CAPITALS Ampersand - Name for the & character At sign - Name for the @ character Bold - Name for boldface text Braces - Name for the { } characters Brackets - Name for the < > characters Bullet - Heavy dot used as an ornament or to being a vertical list Close paren. - Name for the ) character Curly Quotes (smart quotes) - Name for the " " characters Ellipsis - Name for the . . . character Em dash - Name for the — character En dash - Half an em dash, name for the – character End-line hyphen - Hyphen that falls off the end of the line of a text Hard hyphen - Used to join certain compound words (e.g., blue-eyed) Intercap (midcap) - Name for the capital letters that appear in the middle of a company or product name (e.g., WordPerfect) Open paren. - Name for the ( character Serial comma - Comma preceding and or or Slash (solidus; slant; virgule) - Name for the / character Small caps - Capital letters that are shorter than regular caps (e.g., A.M., P.M.) Soft hyphen - A hyphen that appears at the end of a line to indicate the word continues on the next line Strikeout - Name for striking out a word or words Typo - Short for typographical error
What do you think about novels regarding deities? I wanted to create a new twist to them, not just the fact that, "They're there Just Because." Basically, there are two children from the Creator deity. Kaorii, the shadow goddess and Vyce, the purity god. I wasn't sure to make a neutral god or not, so I decided that the Creator makes sure everything is fair in the making, and that his children play fair. Each book is one greater deity trying to top their sibling. An example would be in one book, the disease god comes to be. The next book would be how the god of truth comes into existence. In simpler terms, Kaorii would say, "Look, my child can create diseases with one breath." Then Vyce counters with, "You think you're so smart, don't you, Sister? Well, I've created a child of light." And so on and so forth. Each deity has a symbol and a spirit ward. There are no "Chosen Ones" in this series. The people are random. Everyone comes across a certain obstacle, and some type of object that invokes the spirit ward. After completing a certain quest, they rank in the world of Genesy--the realm of gods. If you're confused on the subject of this, then let me introduce the first book idea of the series. Spoiler In the first book, the greater deitys' powers mix into one object. A necklace. Kammie gets this necklace on her birthday, and after watching the moon for a few minutes, the moon's beams hitting the necklace invokes the spirit wards. Two wolves--one light and one dark suddenly appear in front of her. After their disappearance, Kammie tries to forget about them, but can't. She dreams of them and they explain themselves to a certain extent. Her quest is to stop a greater spirit from devouring the souls of anything it comes across. What'cha think of it?
Kaij: Greetings, folks. Sitting here with me because she doesn't know how dangerous I truly am-- Lethia: What? Kaij: --is Lethia Mireya Traikens. Would you care to elaborate on your name meaning, little girl? Lethia: (thinks) Umm...I can't remember. Kaij: (sighs, rolling eyes) How can you not know the meaning of your own name? You do have a meaning behind it. Lethia: Who are you? Kaij: (grumbles about stupid little kids and leafs through a bunch of paperwork) It says the meanings are forgetful, miracle, and confusion. Does this ring a bell? Lethia: I'unno. Kaij: (blank stare) Lethia: (staring back with a big smile on her face) Kaij: (points) Where'd you get that scar from? Lethia: (hand runs down the side of her face) Mommy says it doesn't matter. Kaij: (thinks, 'Or she means she can't freakin' remember.') This interview isn't really going anywhere. Lethia: (giggles and swings her legs from the chair she's sitting in) I don't know what an...in-ter-view is, but of course we're not going anywhere, silly. We're sitting down. Kaij: (slams her fist down on the table beside her, breaking it) Lethia: (stiffens, eyes like saucers) Kaij: Do you remember what happened now? Lethia: (trembles) I went too close to the forest... Kaij: Now we're getting somewhere. What's your role in the novel, Hollow's Forest? Lethia: (whimpers, eyes watering) I'm--I'm the first victim. Kaij: (sneers in disgust at the sniveling) What were you doing before your death? Lethia: I was playing outside...jumping from one stone to another on the ground. I didn't want to step on the cracks, something bad would happen to Mommy. Kaij: Did you see or hear anything? Lethia: (nods head, eyes darting nervously) I heard thunder...loud noise...it was starting to rain so I had to go back home. I turned and ran into...my teddy...but not...I was attacked... Kaij: While feeling fear, you remembered what happened the last time you were attacked, didn't you? Lethia: ...Yes. Kaij: You didn't want it to happen again, but you were too afraid to move. Lethia: .... Kaij: All right then. Awesome! Well, this concludes our interview. If you'd be so kind Lethia, get out of my sight before I bring dear old teddy back. Lethia: (clambers off the chair and leaves the room, sniffling) Kaij: (looks at you) I hate kids.
Jotting this down for myself. You all will get to know me a little bit better by it, I believe. XP Height: I have a MAJOR phobia of heights. Like standing on the first step of a stool will freak me out. For the most part, I feel dizzy, stomach clenches and I get the shakes. I get to thinking I'm going to fall and it's going to hurt. One person picked me up in a hug from behind one time and I flipped, started hyperventilating because I thought he was going to drop me. It's why I hesitate when I'm about to jump up to sit my butt on a table or something >>; Spiders. When I see a spider I freeze up and almost go on the verge of crying. I don't care if they are the size of a piece of dust. I'm always afraid that one's going to be in my car while I'm driving, and I'll wreck. Cause of damage? A tiny spider looked me in the eye. XD *pansified* People being on my left side. This seriously is something weird. I don't like people walking close to me on my left side. I fall back a few paces, speed up, or shift so they're on my right side instead. My brain just thinks that if they suddenly lash out, since my right side does everything, it think I can take pain better on that side than on my left. Unless it's someone I trust, I don't let people come near my left side if walking, and if they do, I get jittery and it shows. Mirrors. I always hesitate right before looking into a mirror. Always. It never ceases to amaze me. I don't know why I do it, but I do. Kind of like in the horror films where someone shuts a cabinet and when they look in the mirror, there's a guy grinning holding some sort of weapon. Or even a bloody note on the wall behind that they didn't notice before *shudders* I always think someone's out there to get me. Windows. I can't be near the window in my room. I just can't. I walk on the far side when I'm passing by it. Other than that, the only time I can't be near other windows is at night, because I start to see things I know aren't there, and I imagine someone suddenly coming into view, face pressed against the glass. At night, when nobody's awake, I move down to the basement for the most part, where there are no windows for someone to look into and see me. As for my bedroom window, I get the feeling someone outside is watching me. Pair of binoculars on hand. Answering the phone. Especially at night. I always have a heartattack when the phone rings around nine or so. This was when my ex called me, at the time we were dating. I don't talk about him, though. So throughout the day, whenever the telephone rings, I just let it ring until someone else picks it up or until the answering machine gets it. I think it's the fact I never know who's calling, and it freaks me out. If someone called my cell, and I knew the number, I'd answer. Or not, but that's considering if I'm lazy.