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    Getting Names for My Characters

    Behindthename.com is new to me. Thanks JCFarnham for suggesting it, I will definitely give it a try as well. It is always great to have a few places to search out new characters. I personally haven't had much luck with smashing on the keyboard. lol!
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    Do You Title Your Chapters or Just Number Them?

    Thanks for all the input here. I see many of you are very decided on what you are doing or will be doing on your next stories. Digital_Fey, I couldn't agree more, that quotes at the beginnings of each chapter which aren't relevant and don't genuinely add to the depth of the book are just...
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    Wedding Traditions

    Weddings do crop up in the story I am working on right now. They tend to be a mixture of early Christian and old pagan rights. The choice of who marries who is much more of a family matter and a decision of what the ancestors and the wise woman believe would be best, than an act of love...
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    Do You Title Your Chapters or Just Number Them?

    I'm wondering whether you title your chapters or just number them. Some writers also include quotes from either other writers, usually non-copyrighted authors, or quotes from earlier chapters as a teaser at the head of a chapter. I title my chapters, but I was thinking for my new work, I might...
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    Problem with my map, and creating a believable world

    I'm afraid I have to agree with Flain. Too much description does tend to bore me. However, I think the Map is absolutely fantastic, and the amount of work you have put into it and the amount of research into land forms and how they are generated is a work of art! Ascanius you obviously...
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    Do you have any special rituals around Ancestor Worship?

    My current story involved a group of people who are Christianized, but still have pagan beliefs and still worship their ancestors. One of the most sacride days of the year is the Feast of All Souls. (November 1st and Halloween to us). There is quite a ritual about this, and much of the...
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    Chapter lengths?

    I definitely have to agree with Rheadin. You need to write until you feel your sequence is ready to move into the next sequence. But remember to follow JDFarnham and leaving the reader wanting to read on. I tend to try to write a sequence at one sitting, and then come back and refine and...
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    Dealing with time

    My story is written in an England of the 9th Century A.D. It is a fantasy story of course so there is some historical and some fantasy made up stuff. The calendar year is split up by religious and agricultural festivals. Sundays are referred to as just the Sabbath, and the rest of the days of...
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    Food! Real, Partial Fantasy or Completely Fantasy?

    Ah Ophiucha, that dish sounds just delicious. I think. It sounds like you have a great deal of fun with food in your world of fantasy. I had fun crafting the story for my 9th century English going to the Great Cave to hunt the Giant Vampire Bats during the day, because the lord of the manor...
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    What Kind of Abode Do your Characters Live in

    Yes the Shire Reeve is a Saxon title, that was why I was thinking of going with the 9th century houses. Thanks your your thoughts, because, I too have been thinking about it a lot, and I've realized that I really need to go with the 9th century houses. They will work better with the small...
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    What Kind of Abode Do your Characters Live in

    I'm trying to decide whether to use actual 9th and 10th century English buildings for my villagers, or is I should go back and stick some round houses in from back in the 3rd and 4th century AD. The round houses have a great deal of character, but so do the wattle and daub houses with their...
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    Switching main characters

    I can see you are definitely looking for a challenge Black Dragon! The reader would have to almost immediately find the new central character even more sympathetic than the original central character. Unless you have a very loyal readership, I would think some readers might become very...
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    Fantasy Names

    I do like to get a easily pronounceable name. I want my readers to be able to remember the name, so it has to be a little different, but not so different that they can't tell their friends about it. I will often take an old name from years ago, before they standardized the spelling of English...
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    Food! Real, Partial Fantasy or Completely Fantasy?

    Actually the bats are very large in my world, and they are very mean! They are one of the evil enemies of the good guys and I always think it's nice when we can eat our enemies!
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    Getting Names for My Characters

    The current book I'm working on is set in England in the late 9th century AD. I was find it difficult to get myself moving because I just couldn't get my characters any names. Then I found the Domesday Book on line. I selected a couple of towns and used the names from those towns to get me...
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