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Werthan

  • Writing Tips Re: Name for Supercomputer

    Why does it need to be MUSPELL? If you don't have any background for this naming, then it's seems like a pretty odd one. I can't think of any acronym ...

    Apr 28, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Name for Supercomputer

    I'm writing a story with a superhumanly intelligent supercomputer who is dictator of the world and whose name is abbreviated MUSPELL. I can't think of what MUSPELL stands for though. ...

    Apr 27, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Vote on Book Covers!

    The third one.

    Apr 24, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Writing and Languages

    I read somewhere that knowing more than one language affects how you write. Apparently regardless of what the other language is, you will use less vocabulary and more complex structures. ...

    Apr 24, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Epic Poems/Fiction in Poetry

    I feel like I really want to write books as epic poems (and short stories as not-so-epic poems). Is that a good idea or bad? I don't think any fictional ...

    Apr 20, 2016
  • Research Re: Choskchsskiirt And All That Jazz

    If I'm reading that right, the Q makes a K sound? So like... Krain-es-fur? Just try as best as you can :) The Q is a sound actually made in ...

    Apr 14, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Using Made-Up Languages

    So you do understand linguistics. Apologies. I start at the basic level and work my way up from there. For clarification, the reason I assumed they were all the same ...

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Using Made-Up Languages

    Hey there! Speaking as a reader, I'm not usually too fond of the use of long, impossible-to-navigate words in stories, whether as place and language names or not. See, the ...

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Using Made-Up Languages

    As a general rule, you should not write made up languages in fiction. For multiple reasons. Then what should I write, Old High German and Latin? Two : Unless you ...

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Research Re: Choskchsskiirt And All That Jazz

    How should I give the pronunciation? IPA, in terms of sounds in other languages... ? "Qrainespfuhr" isn't pronounced like English at all, for one instance.

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Research Re: Choskchsskiirt And All That Jazz

    It's pretty much just limited to names, but I'm worried the names will alienate people...

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Research Re: Choskchsskiirt And All That Jazz

    OK, I already asked this on another subsection but I'm not sure that was the right one since it's been days and I got no reply. Now that I'm considering ...

    Apr 10, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: More Help With Names!

    I like Sebastian the best because of Johann Sebastian Bach. My second choice would be Feodore. Arthur and Cecil are both not super sophisticated sounding to me if that's what ...

    Apr 9, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing Languages/Dialects/Accents (Giving Help)

    I've noticed a lot of people using languages/dialects/accents in their writing and asking questions relating to those. They are quite a good way to portray things related to identities and ...

    Apr 8, 2016
  • Research Re: How do I write with a FMC with a language barrier?

    I would just describe accents, not do phonetic accents, and I would use text from the language for short things but not long things. I also agree with the advice ...

    Apr 8, 2016


My tongue must tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break...
— Katherine, The Taming of the Shrew