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Thanks Banten! That gave me some ideas, for sure, Part of the problem I'm having is that Drug One is not a street drug yet, so there isn't some colloquial term I could apply to it. No one outside of a few people know it even exists at this point. So I feel "forced" to choose something more...

First off - take it easy on yourself for the first draft. So long as you get the words on the page, they can be made better. I find it hard to smoothly lay in description. I loathe stories that drag over the details of how a character looks down to the last thread on their socks. The...

I find flashbacks and dreams can work if they are given with a LIGHT hand. I much prefer to have characters think about their past as they carry on in their world. I utilize a dream scene to show how the character is not coping with her past, but the dream sequence is less than 200 words...

Hi all! I am terrible at choosing names for things in general, and I have two different drugs I need to create out of thin air. I know what they do, but picking a name has been impossible. I know there are naming conventions followed when creating drugs in the real world, and I want to stick...