me, writing: oh! this is the perfect word to use in this one specific scenario! i am so pleased
stupid little bird brain: word again??? use word again??? use word again???? use word again????? word???? perfect word??? use again????
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I’m a writer, of course my notes app is full of character bios and ideas
I’m a writer, of course I own a ridiculous amount of scented candles
I’m a writer, of course I’ve made playlists for all of my OCs
I’m a writer, of course my social life is virtually nonexistent
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GREAT NAMES FOR FANTASY MALE LOVE INTERESTS!!
Are YOU a white gentile author looking to name your male love interest who is also an elf/demon/centaur?! Do YOU love the name Ezra for its total uniqueness and utter lack of use by any known cultural groups? Well, this list is for you!
White Person Baby Name Website has compiled 100 of the least known, least used, most untouched by any human beings on planet Earth names EVER for your perusal and use as an author. Each of these names will 100%, without fail, conjure images of MAGIC and EXOTICNESS for every one of your readers! Consider:
Chaim
Yisroel
Eitan
Fievel
Menachem Mendel
Chizkiyahu
Tzvi
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unhinged firstdraftposting
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sometimes you're happily thinking about your wips, sometimes even writing about your wips, and then you attempt to think about one more thing when you brain just goes:
and that's that. you have no more thoughts.
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Me, in the shower, composing a scene word by word in my head:
Me sitting down afterwards to type it out:
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”Why are your descriptions so vivid?” Because I have aphantasia. No seriously, up until I was 20, I didn’t know that it isn’t normal to not be able to visualise things in your mind. The reason I go out of my way to make my descriptions as vivid as possible is because I can’t see shit in my mind, and I always assumed that other people couldn’t either
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Name meaning meme
@winterandwords tagged me! Thanks for the tag, Winter - I love doing things like this. To everyone else, feel free to tag me and I'll try to tag you back!
I'm gonna do this for the protagonists of Spymaster. I'll give the literal meanings of their names as well as a few notes about what their names mean historically/sociologically.
📝 Eugene James Wallace:
From Wikipedia: 'Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (eugenēs), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (eu), "well" and γένος (genos), "race, stock, kin".' Damn that is . . . so eugenics-y sounding. Especially on a white guy from the 1950s.
From Ancestry.com: '[Wallace is an] Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames e.g. Wallach.' Wallace and Wallach both mean 'Foreigner.' So, together: 'well-born foreigner.'
Wallace's family is German-American on both sides, with his mother being a recent immigrant and his father being the child or descendant of immigrants. 'James' is his father's name. The surname was, yes, Americanized after immigration, and both 'Eugene' and 'James' were probably picked for being very WASP-y names. Eugene and his family are big believers in assimilation - although I think he might get less enthusiastic about it later in life.
Mirsky calls him 'Zhenya,' after the Russian version of 'Eugene,' 'Evgeniy.'
📝 Vyacheslav Halidovich Mirsky:
From Wikipedia: 'Vyacheslav is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is a Slavic dithematic name (that is, composed of two lexemes) derived from the Slavic words vyache, "great(er)", and slava, "glory, fame". A common short form is Slava.'
From Ancestry.com: 'Mirsky is a Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Mir a place in Belarus.'
Of course, Vyacheslav Mirsky is not Jewish - as far as I know, it's not an exclusively Jewish name within Russia, but it probably doesn't matter because it's just a random Russian name that Mirsky's parents picked when they got off the boat from Azerbaijan. Their original surname was Aslanov.
Mirsky doesn't much like his first name or its nicknames; he's very protective of his patronymic, though. Halidovich comes from his father's name, Halid - the same Muslim name as DJ Khaled, just in a different form.
Wallace calls him 'Vee' as a nickname.
Tagging @acertainmoshke, @fitz-higgins, @meerawrites, @dragoninatrenchcoat, and an open tag to anyone who wants to do it! If you steal this and tag me, I will also try to tag you in the future.
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