It's pretty hard to overstate the importance of religion in pre-industrial societies. In our desaturated, secular world, religion has become a...
What compels you to write? For as long as I can remember, I have always had worlds and characters populating my imagination. They are inspired by...
I don't think there's an easy formula for doing this because it depends on your story. Sometimes, if it's a one-off story, and the setting does...
Convincing your reader that a mature, intelligent vampire 'forgets' that the sun is coming up is going to be a hard sell. The survival instinct is...
I don't know what you're trying to accomplish exactly, but it seems to me that the place to put your backstory is after he's caught. Action...
For naming things, maybe, but not for transcribing proper names. That's considered indelicate. "I'm sorry, I can't pronounce your name. I'll just...
I might be in the minority here, but I always find common contemporary names to be irritating in fantasy novels (unless, of course, it's some sort...
Sorry for the long post, but this is something I've been working with recently, so a lot of this is very fresh in my mind. It will probably seem...
It depends on what the name is being used for. Lovecraft didn't give his protagonists weird names, only things that were supposed to be weird or...
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