Thanks! I'll be checking those out. I see you mentioned Clive Barker, whose writing I absolutely adore. One of Horror's finest.
Thanks for the welcome! The trouble with me is, my parentheses are usually some comedic bit or punchline, and I must think I'm very funny indeed...
Yeah, geography-specific names are a bit more tricky. Double the work if the setting is in the past. Luckily, if your character is American,...
Ooh, I've heard good things about the Kingkiller chronicles. As for Pratchett, I'll probably give the same advice anyone else could give, and...
The "Be Right Back" ep. Playing around with the idea of advanced AI's in realistic human bodies and a service that provides these as...
I've only ever completed Nano once, I too often run out of steam and life gets in the way and before you know it you have to write 12k words on a...
I'll give this a gander! Thanks for the tip. As a lover of all things Asimov I'm definitely going to check this out. Especially with Nano...
British person here. For a long time, I used to wonder and obsess over whether the New York I had seen in movies and books and TV shows was...
I agree with Shadowfax, looking closely at actual colleges and their sporting events, and then structuring something fictional yet functionally...
I haven't fallen out of love with writing per se, the love is always there. That dreaded writer's block though, that's another question. And the...
Bringing out my inner 90's kid here, but the Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters featured a community of monsters who lived under a landfill—...
I think starting off the story with the child would be of more interest. The child's story/journey sounds more dynamic and interesting. And if you...
Without derailing the original purpose of the thread, personally I prefer stories where the narrator or author doesn't lace the tone with heavy...
I love using this list (or the equiv. for boys), because it's a fairly basic list of your standard, everyday names, and I like to keep in check...
Separate names with a comma.
