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Character with two names
I have a character with two names. Well not two distinct names, but rather two forms of the same name. My story is set in the later Roman Empire, but the characters are Romanized easterners living on ...
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Can one of my POV characters have the last name Thibodaux and get published?
I live in Louisiana, and names with french origins are very common here. So we all know how they're pronounced.
I'm worried that a publisher will want me to change the name as it may not be so obvious ...
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When Choosing Labels/titles for Characters instead of their names
This is probably a repeat of a previous question, but I have a slightly different problem when writing. I don't always want to refer to characters by their names (if I do, then I run into problems ...
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Is it fine to write something that has no relation to my local life or language or culture?
I am writing a novel (well, I have started to), with a fantasy middle ages and magic sort of background and English, Greek and meaningless names. I am from India, but my story feels 'European'. Should ...
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Can a foreign language novel have English character names?
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My main character is born and raised in a foreign, non-English speaking country. After his 18th birthday he moves due to some circumstances in Great Britain, learns the language and lives ...
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Female Pet Names that a Londoner might use?
I was wondering about female pet names, like darling, sweetie, pet, babe, etc.
One of my characters refers to his other half as "pet" but I've been told that this is common to the North East (UK). As ...
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How to have a character be nameless for the first few paragraphs of a book?
Let me first explain what is going in in the beginning of the story: My main character belongs to a tribal culture that requires their children pass a rite of passage to earn their name.
So I'm kind ...
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