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Rachael Elg was the original pseudonym that I came up with. How I landed on 'Rachael' is a bit of a long story involving mistaken identity, but 'Elg' is an ...

Girls: 159 Boys: 63

Well, when it comes to fantasy literature, I have no idea what accents characters are talking in. Accents refer only to pronunciation. Of course, fantasy characters sometimes use words or ...

Italics! They work great for signaling to the reader that the text he or she is reading is not, for the lack of a better word, normal. Kind of like ...

Oh, how I've been hoping someone would ask this question, or more specifically notice this in his/her writing. Why? Because it's something that every writer actively trying to improve his/her ...

If it's a modern mental hospital and it's up to standards... Activities focus on self-esteem boosts, but to the outside, they might seem dumb or silly. Arts and crafts, coloring ...

You could also leave it as 23:52. A lot of it depends on the style you're writing in, of course--length and complexity of sentences, the Point of View, essentially the ...

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I going to be summarily shunned if I say that I've never had a problem coming up with names for characters? Since I write high fantasy, I just make them ...

First, Harry Potter isn't an urban fantasy. I'm not even sure Twilight counts as an urban fantasy, although it's much closer than Harry Potter. The first thing that comes to ...

Yeah, I'd advise against attempting to make your own language completely. Doing that takes a Ph.D.'s worth of knowledge and several years--it took the guy who made the language for ...

Will Sidebar be cured of his grumpiness? Find out soon in the next episode of Chat!

Though, why do they have to be Japanese-sounding? Why not invent your own language/naming system and your own culture?

I'm the proud babysitter of a 6 and 8-year-old, and what they're capable of would definitely surprise you. And I know I started writing when I was 8. I was ...

If you have characters, you have plot. Why? Because "plot is a character wanting something, even if it's just a glass of water," as some famous old dead dude I ...