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I assume that you are writing in English and that the characters in your story speak Romanian.
Conventionally, if you want your characters to use a non-English term, you would explain it to your ...
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Readers almost certainly won't get confused, because a person's name is not always the same as what people call that person. If they do get confused, you can fix it easily enough.
For example, most ...
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You can do it like that, but if everyone calls her Bunica (which I assume means grandmother), there's no reason why you should be afraid of being consistent and calling her Bunica in the narrative too....
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Should I flesh out the start of my fictional story?
This is not foreshadowing.
Unfortunately, for American audiences, calling out "Marco" is comical; it is reminiscent of the childhood game "Marco Polo", a call and response game ...
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Should I flesh out the start of my fictional story?
If I understand it right, you've written the first scene that's supposed to foreshadow later events, but not yet the later events themselves.
You're best equiped to write a good foreshadowing if you ...
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