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Post by PaperGrace on Aug 22, 2012 14:39:39 GMT -5
...and that is where baby name sites come in handy. Once you have a character named, run it and any obvious shortenings of it through the search engine in a baby site. Imagine if it had meant something completely WRONG and then along comes someone thinking it was intentional?!
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Post by scribbliz on Aug 22, 2012 14:54:46 GMT -5
valid point! I will have to remember that; I think I'm going to look and see if I can find a name that means something like Guardian or Warrior or somehitng for "Bob"
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Post by Freedom on Aug 22, 2012 19:59:00 GMT -5
I think i'll start with the archeologist's point of view until after the attack; I think that will be a prolog, and his death and her capture will end the prolog. I think there will be a blank area of time, and the story will start with "bob" being assigned to guard a prisoner. You won't know much about her, because he doesn't. He'll learn some from sharing her dreams, and learn she is Morgan le Faye's granddaughter. Then at the point where they are found in the woods and he is knocked unconcious I think it will change to Kateraina's POV Very nice, way to show-not-tell! *editedtoadd* What PaperGrace said ... I'm already kind of attached to "Bob" -- also, it's kinda refreshing to have a simple regular name, I tend to get carried away making up names. Although, Dinan IS appealing  |
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Post by scribbliz on Oct 22, 2012 13:38:50 GMT -5
so I have officially decided to make HIS name an acronym...I think it will make people in the know smile, kind of an inside joke, and I think it'll help me write it, by making it a little less serious if that makes sense? Not sure if I will go with Dinan (Damn I Need A Name) or something different, but probably Dinan, at least for the writing phase...it may get changed out in editting...we'll see.
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Post by Freedom on Oct 22, 2012 15:53:59 GMT -5
Love it!
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Post by scribbliz on Nov 8, 2012 3:04:46 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm writting this story for NaNoWriMo, and I need some advice. The concept makes mention of a prophecy about Kateraina, spoken moments before she and her mother are frozen into the ice casket. The following is a copy of that prophecy, and I need your thoughts on it? Is it too short? too long? Does it fit, without giving too much away? Is it too obscure? Not obscure enough? Ect, ect...
Future of flames, child of power
To fight alone, will loose the fire
Yet flame and heat may save the day
If one is found to Guard her way
Her hope be found, in time still lost
Family gone, their deaths the cost
Of gifts required to find her song
Yet fighting alone, her hope be gone.
If hope does burn, the world burns too
Yet living Guarded, sees the world through
If hope stands Guard, dreamers see the dawn
Yet flames unleashed, burn until life is gone.
thoughts? i'm going to continue writing for now, with the prophecy as is, but would really like advice on this? It is my fifth version, and I think the best so far. Does it need more work? Or can I call it acceptable until final drafts of the story?
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Post by Freedom on Nov 9, 2012 12:30:18 GMT -5
I think I get it -- she has the power to battle the evil, but if she tries to battle alone, she will fail; there is someone chosen, or yet to be found, to guard her; that she mustn't lose hope.
If I'm right, then my thought is that it stands up fine for this draft. As you finish the story, things will occur that you might need / want to tweak the prophecy to cover.
Future of flames, child of power
To fight alone, will loose the fire
Yet flame and heat may save the day
If one is found to Guard her way
Her hope be found, in time still lost
Family gone, their deaths the cost
Of gifts required to find her song
Yet fighting alone, her hope be gone.
If hope does burn, the world burns too
Yet living Guarded, sees the world through
If hope stands Guard, dreamers see the dawn
Yet flames unleashed, burn until life is gone.
Big wtg!!!
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Post by PaperGrace on Nov 9, 2012 16:53:59 GMT -5
I think it's sufficiently non-specific, covers the main points, and as Freedom said, you can tweak it later to fit any unexpected twists!
Way to go indeed!
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Post by scribbliz on Nov 9, 2012 20:00:49 GMT -5
frustrated me to no end; it took five drafts to get it even decent, and my head couldn't get past this point without the prophecy, and it took so many drafts that for the rest of the day, my head would not swap back from editing mode to writing mode. I ended up writting more the next day, but man that was hard to do! successfully back into writing gear this morning, and hopeflly will continue on later.
thanks for reviewing this for me, girls, i really apprecaite it
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