Chit-Chat: Random Writing Nonsense

[bobandbill]

We did Shakespeare every year in high school. Some like Macbeth I was fine with; others however like As You Like It... well, I for one did not like it (nor did many other people in the class, or so I read even Shakespeare himself, which says something). I would have liked some more variety in authors as well - Shakespeare every year was imo too much.

 

[Bay]

Well, we haven't read any Shakespearean plays in school hitherto, so I can't answer that; his sonnet, however, which we've read in English II (can't remember the exact one) creeped me out a little.

Yeah I heard many of Shakespearean sonnets are on the very intimate side. There have been a few I studied in high school and not a fan of them. XD

We did Shakespeare every year in high school. Some like Macbeth I was fine with; others however like As You Like It... well, I for one did not like it (nor did many other people in the class, or so I read even Shakespeare himself, which says something). I would have liked some more variety in authors as well - Shakespeare every year was imo too much.

I can understand the burnout over that. Pretty much similar situation each year except for my third year in high school. Our teacher instead had us study a few of Shakespeare's sonnets (*points reply to Aisu's* ). That actually made me glad he had us study different authors instead.

 

[txteclipse]

Heyyy I see that Camp NaNo has been mentioned. I'm re-writing the Eon Chronicles between last NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNo. I've hit ~8500 words so far this month, aiming for 30,000. If anyone wants to buddy me or talk about stories or hang out I'm on Camp NaNo and NaNoWriMo under the same username. Also possibly the reason I'm crawling out from the rock I've been under for what, five years?

Anyway Shakespeare is O.G. Anyone who comes up with "whose horrid image doth unfix my hair" wins at literature forever.

 

[Bay]

Heyyy I see that Camp NaNo has been mentioned. I'm re-writing the Eon Chronicles between last NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNo. I've hit ~8500 words so far this month, aiming for 30,000. If anyone wants to buddy me or talk about stories or hang out I'm on Camp NaNo and NaNoWriMo under the same username. Also possibly the reason I'm crawling out from the rock I've been under for what, five years?

Anyway Shakespeare is O.G. Anyone who comes up with "whose horrid image doth unfix my hair" wins at literature forever.

Yo! Wish you luck on hitting 30,000 words there, txteclipse! *thumbs up* Already mentioned this, but can't wait to see the re-written version if you decide to post it!

 

[txteclipse]

Thanks Bay! Things are actually going pretty smoothly so far: I only missed my word goal on one day, but I've caught up again since then. I plan on posting the story once it's finished, though that may take a while. My inner editor freaks out if I know people are going to see what I'm writing, which is really bad for finishing anything! Surprise, right?

 

[Ruby Rose]

How do you guys find names for your characters,places, and for the story(fanfic,novel,shortstory,ect)? I find it interesting and helpful to look up meanings of names for places and people. It could help your story become more interesting and also help out in the storyline in some ways. Also I'm currently writing a novel right now but I can't seem to find a name for it. It has to be with something to do with the storyline but also eye catching to a reader. Do you guys have problems finding out names for your stories?

Also I have read a few of Shakespeare's work though it was a long time ago for school(probably 3 or so years back).

 

[Sonata]

I don't know if I'll be as helpful as others but, when I go to name someone or something I just think of what sounds good really. For places I just throw together some random letters and try to make something out of it unless I have a theme for the place or thing. If I'm planning to make a town the personification of Love for example then I'll translate the word into different languages until I find something that sounds nice and then bastardize it a little bit and make it sound more normal and less foreign as well as make it sound like something that would fit in my setting. As for intelligent beings, I usually just give them normal names like Jeff or Steve unless they have a more important role in the story, in which case you might do the same thing that I talked about with places and bastardize a translated word that reveals something about the character.

 

[Aisu]

How do you guys find names for your characters,places, and for the story(fanfic,novel,shortstory,ect)? I find it interesting and helpful to look up meanings of names for places and people. It could help your story become more interesting and also help out in the storyline in some ways. Also I'm currently writing a novel right now but I can't seem to find a name for it. It has to be with something to do with the storyline but also eye catching to a reader. Do you guys have problems finding out names for your stories?

Also I have read a few of Shakespeare's work though it was a long time ago for school(probably 3 or so years back).

Majority of the time, I use an interesting-sounding name; rarely I'll use a name that actually relates to the character, like naming a very intelligent character 'Aristotle,' but really the way I find a name is to look up a list of names, find one that sounds cool, and use it. Places, I use the same method; for the story, I pick one interesting point of it and use it as a title. What you said about names helping stories is true, though, and I do agree with it by the way {:3}

 

[Nolafus]

As far as character names, I'll only give thought into the last names. For the first names, unless it's a special case, I'll just use whatever appeals to me at the time. I'll try to make the last name fit into the character in one way or another, whether that's personality traits, or struggles their dealing with. All cleverly disguised, of course.

I take a main theme from the story and try to base my title off of that. I'm a fan of really simple titles, so things like Alien Poverty, Pain, Silenced, and Lost are some I've come up with.

 

[Ruby Rose]

As far as character names, I'll only give thought into the last names. For the first names, unless it's a special case, I'll just use whatever appeals to me at the time. I'll try to make the last name fit into the character in one way or another, whether that's personality traits, or struggles their dealing with. All cleverly disguised, of course.

I take a main theme from the story and try to base my title off of that. I'm a fan of really simple titles, so things like Alien Poverty, Pain, Silenced, and Lost are some I've come up with.

Right.The main character in my novel is Kairi, I didn't look this name up because I wanted the first name to be nice but also simple. But her last name is Bellator which means 'Warrior' in Latin, which is related to the story's settings. And for some places that hold special events I will look up some names which meanings describe the place in a way. I don't only do this for people and places but also for objects that are important in the story. This doesn't have to be done all the time with every character unless it is someone/something/someplace important to the story because it adds emphasis to the thing,person, or place. Using it too much will make it loss its value of singling out that important something in the story.

 

[Bay]

I don't know if I'll be as helpful as others but, when I go to name someone or something I just think of what sounds good really. For places I just throw together some random letters and try to make something out of it unless I have a theme for the place or thing. If I'm planning to make a town the personification of Love for example then I'll translate the word into different languages until I find something that sounds nice and then bastardize it a little bit and make it sound more normal and less foreign as well as make it sound like something that would fit in my setting. As for intelligent beings, I usually just give them normal names like Jeff or Steve unless they have a more important role in the story, in which case you might do the same thing that I talked about with places and bastardize a translated word that reveals something about the character.

More or less me when it comes to finding names for places. For instance some fics I base the setting on European countries so I would look up the city names, pick a couple and mash them together into one name (similar how several Pokemon names were localized). As for a person I tend to pick a name out of random, although sometimes I use Behind the Name if I want a specific name that relates to a character.

As for titles, I tend to go if it relates to the story. Sometimes I would think of one right away, sometimes I would just think of a tentative title until a few chapters later there's one that I like. When it comes to my much shorter works I would go for song lyrics if it fits the story well.

 

[Astinus]

Fortunately, the stories that I write have real world places for the settings, so I don't have to think much about names for places. As for characters, I either look up names with meanings that aren't too obvious, or just go with whatever pops into my head in random spurts of inspiration.

For my titles, I actually pulled a few lines from presidential speeches that sounded good and fit my story. An example is "Long Twilight Struggle," which is a phrase from John F. Kennedy's speech that I liked and wrote down to remember. When I looked up the rest of the speech, there were other lines that fit the themes of the four books in the series, and those phrases became the titles.

Other than that, I just choose phrases or words that fir the theme of the story.

 

[Krida]

Fortunately, the stories that I write have real world places for the settings, so I don't have to think much about names for places.

There's this unfinished story I did for NaNoWriMo whose setting I hadn't quite decided.
So I wrote and it ended up looking a lot like Paris and its surroundings.
Mostly because I wrote something I could relate too.
But since I hadn't decided, I tended not to name places and the only proper name there is in it is a restaurant "Chez Mathilde" that sounds like the regular "crêperie" in the middle of what could only be St Michel's area... It helped that it was a fantasy story (Werewolves vs Vampires stuff, I was particularly uninspired that year...)

You can indeed make up a lot of things when you write fantasy, but even when it's about the real world, you can take some liberties.
The only instance where I invented less place and insisted on making it as accurate as possible was a romantic story I made for an anonymous fanfiction prompts board about another game.
I was so outraged by them thinking Paris' cabarets in the 1920's were basically brothels (even though most self righteous and very local people from that epoch may have thought so...) that I thoroughly schooled them about proper Parisian culture between 1920 and WWII with real places, real names and a romantic story between two characters torn from their original medieval fantasy setting.

Some of those places are gone though... From the descriptions I read both on Wikipedia and books, some of them looked marvelous, even the less respected establishments.
It was fun looking up the old streets names (and hard too!). I can't believe some of them changed within the century when I passed through them often when I was a student and myself went to drink in a café near the Moulin Rouge...

I think research is truly about 75% of the fun.

 

[Konekodemon]

This really isn't a sign up post just wanted to find out something. Are any of you reviewers Bleach fans? I was going to ask for a review on my Bleach story but I need someone who knows Bleach to look over it.

 

[Bay]

This really isn't a sign up post just wanted to find out something. Are any of you reviewers Bleach fans? I was going to ask for a review on my Bleach story but I need someone who knows Bleach to look over it.

Moved this from the Monthly Review Challenge to here as that thread is for sign-ups and keeping track of reviews. If requesting a review, either VM/PM a few active members or here.

Anyways, posting fanfics of other fandoms in a Pokemon forum is usually tough as a lot of Pokemon fans probably aren't/don't follow other fandoms. Me personally I don't follow Bleach, so I can't help you there. If you post your fic in other sites like FFnet and/or Archive of Our Own you might have better luck. You can still ask around, but don't be surprised if several people you asked aren't familiar with Bleach either.

 

[Konekodemon]

Moved this from the Monthly Review Challenge to here as that thread is for sign-ups and keeping track of reviews. If requesting a review, either VM/PM a few active members or here.

Anyways, posting fanfics of other fandoms in a Pokemon forum is usually tough as a lot of Pokemon fans probably aren't/don't follow other fandoms. Me personally I don't follow Bleach, so I can't help you there. If you post your fic in other sites like FFnet and/or Archive of Our Own you might have better luck. You can still ask around, but don't be surprised if several people you asked aren't familiar with Bleach either.

It's just I worked very hard on chapter two writing over 8,000 words. I've never written that much before. Well, expect for one time on my DBZ fic and it's a bit disappointing that not a single person on any site i post it to says, "Awesome job! Well done!"

 

[Bay]

It's just I worked very hard on chapter two writing over 8,000 words. I've never written that much before. Well, expect for one time on my DBZ fic and it's a bit disappointing that not a single person on any site i post it to says, "Awesome job! Well done!"

Believe me, I know how it feels to work on a chapter/story you're very excited about but get no comments. You then suddenly think your work is terrible. I struggled with this for several months now.

I totally understand you wanting to get comments and I've also asked around myself. Do be aware though you're likely to not get much comments on your Bleach story in a Pokemon forum. Not sure what else I can say, to be honest.

 

[Konekodemon]

I don't care about that. If I get even one comment that'll be enough.

 

[Bay]

I don't care about that. If I get even one comment that'll be enough.

And that's natural to feel that way. I too would like to get at least one on several of my fics, but many of them I got no comments. Everyone experiences that. If you become too persistent in wanting to get just one comment, though, you might drive many people away (I kinda did that unintentionally and that led to some people thinking differently of me).

 

[Konekodemon]

I guess I could try the trade off switch which is, "I'll review yours if you review mine."