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Author Craft / Character Names
« on: January 13, 2007, 06:58:36 PM »
This is without a doubt the number one cause for writer's block for me.  Right now, I'm trying to name the protagonist of my story.  I wanted a cool sounding last name, so I went with Frost.  I already gave him a first name in a previous version of the story I wrote years ago, which was Robert.  I thought that worked well until I put the two names together.

My main character's name is Robert Frost.

I've done the same thing with the names Kevin Smith, Michael Jackson, Robert Smith, and Gary Larson.  I've now wasted half an hour of productivity trying to come with a new name for the character.  Does anyone else have this trouble?  Am I overthinking things?  How does everyone else name their characters?

The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.

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Author Craft / Shared Universes
« on: January 04, 2007, 12:45:48 AM »
The only place I've ever seen this done is in licensed fiction such as Star Wars or D&D novels...but do you think it would be possible for a group of authors to write in a shared universe?  Say someone wrote the stories of a White Counsel wizard in New York using the same universe the Dresden series was set in...would you read it?  Would you pick it up if you weren't reading the Dresden series as long as it set up the world properly?

Get the ideas of fanfics out of your head though.  The authors collaborate on everything so that there's no contradictions and anything world-shattering is shared between authors.  Do you think something like that would work?

The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.

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Author Craft / Him or me? First vs third person
« on: December 29, 2006, 02:58:03 AM »
Short and simple...do you feel that first person perspective is necessary for the urban fantasy genre?

The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.

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