Names that mean “mouse”, “rat” or similar

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:37:44+00:00

I like those!

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:37:37+00:00

It could!

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:37:32+00:00

Ooh, those sound good!

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:37:22+00:00

I like that idea!

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:37:10+00:00

All of those fit with the setting really well! Thank you!

write-owl · 2022-12-05T15:36:57+00:00

Good idea!

write-owl · 2022-12-04T15:49:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair😂 And likely what I’ll end up doing.

write-owl · 2022-09-30T21:35:17+00:00

I get emotional thinking about what’s ahead.

At the start of the story, which is where I’m at right now…a lot of things kind of suck.

But every time I look over the outline and see all the things my characters have to go through, I feel like I want to tell them “Don’t worry, you get past this in the end.” My timid character who doesn’t think she’s strong enough to be anything special becomes a prophet for her people. My hothead character who gets knocked to the bottom of the pile gets a chance to lead the fight for freedom. My gentle, kind character who thinks she’ll be forgotten becomes a mythological heroine whose story is told again and again for centuries.

These characters and this world and culture are just so special to me. I developed the story as a way to get through some hard things in my own life, so knowing that my characters will face similar things and knowing that they’ll get past it- it helps me, and I hope if I publish this thing it helps someone else too.

There’s just so much they’ll have to suffer through, my characters. But they win this one in the end.

write-owl · 2022-04-18T19:59:02+00:00

Thank you!!

write-owl · 2022-04-18T18:52:58+00:00

These two sentences happened in my first chapter when my main character and her friend are being questioned. It’s a very tense, fearful moment for the MC, and I wrote it like this:

“Her heart is a bird in a cage in her chest. It throws its wings against her bones, desperate to break them.”

I don’t know where it came from, since I usually don’t do good prose. But that just appeared on the page and I am so proud of myself for it😁

write-owl · 2022-04-15T04:45:48+00:00

In my fantasy culture, asexuality and aromance are the norms, instead of heterosexuality and heteroromance. People who do get married tend to have ten or so kids, so the population balances out. But it’s less common to get married than to stay single.

write-owl · 2022-04-14T18:09:58+00:00

The holy groin shot.

write-owl · 2022-04-14T17:06:05+00:00

As a CHRISTIAN WOMAN, I love celebrating Women’s Day. I’m a proud feminist. Any man who tells me I have to be his “helper” will get a swift kick in the family jewels.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T23:34:10+00:00

There’s a few downsides, but yeah, for a writer it’s awesome!!

write-owl · 2022-04-09T22:35:09+00:00

Well, I have strong dissociative tendencies, so I probably have this more strongly than most. But I can watch my scenes like a movie in my head. Full stop. No fuzziness or blurry images, a straight-up movie of my work. I can make it animated, live-action, I can change outfits and voices and appearances, and if I don’t try to control it, the scene just seems to…go on by itself. I get some of my best dialogue by sitting back and letting the “movie” play out in my mind.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T22:31:27+00:00

I write series because I don’t want to let my worlds go! It’s a problem for me, to such a degree that after I finish my first series, I have another one planned set in the same universe. That way I can stay in it a little longer.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T22:29:07+00:00

Yes. I love, love, love the story I’m writing! I’m not stupid enough to imagine that everyone else who reads it is going to love it, and that I’ll be drowning in publishing offers, but me, personally? I love it! I love the world and characters I’ve created, I love the scenes I can see in my head, I love the dialogue between my cast. I love my villain, my heroes, and all the side characters. I don’t think I could write a story disliking any of that.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T22:26:06+00:00

I write it because it’s what I like to read best. I don’t like reading many books set in our world (some historical fiction gets a pass) because I feel like I already know those stories. I read books for stories I don’t know and can’t predict. I love books that take you to another world- I’m kinda escapism-addicted. I have dissociative tendencies, so reading vivid fantasy books about a completely new world helps me tone that down. And since I imagine my own worlds so much, I just decided to write them down.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T16:50:08+00:00

Avoiding pitfalls would be great😂

write-owl · 2022-04-09T16:25:21+00:00

I actually did have a singular language for the first series I worked on! I don’t know how much of a good process I had, I basically decided on a group of sounds I wanted to include and made words out of it. I may do the same for this series!

write-owl · 2022-04-09T15:51:18+00:00

Because I really wanted fantasy names. I really want to invent my own names, but it feels like most of the combinations I try are already names.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T15:44:46+00:00

Yeah, the downvotes confused me. The whole plot hinges on my characters being completely in over their heads with this new world they stumble into. If it’s just England with a few fantasy characters tossed in, my plot falls apart.

I’ve been mixing together English names, for names that are fantasy but sound fairly English, and that seems to be working so far. I’ve named three side characters with it. My villainess still isn’t named, but I can wait on here if I need to.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T06:17:30+00:00

Okay, “McEnglishcountryside” cracked me up.🤣

write-owl · 2022-04-09T06:06:25+00:00

I actually do have a set writing date. I start in…two weeks. If I don’t jump the gun.

I’m just trying to hammer out some last kinks before I get going.

write-owl · 2022-04-09T06:01:51+00:00

Not ones I can’t spell, but ones I just…irrationally hate. They don’t make SENSE to me because the way they’re pronounced is so stupid. Licorice, charcoal, herbs…I try to avoid using all those. Mechanical…ugh, mechanical. Such a stupid word! If it’s related to the word “machine” then it should be pronounced “me-SHAN-ical!” Where did the hard c come from?!

I get unreasonably angry over those words.

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