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Excerpt: Their wrinkled hands melted together as they strolled slowly down the golden beach. They smiled at one another, knowing that their hands were made for each other, just as their lives had been. Behind them, the twin suns cast a warm, yellow halo across the horizon. It would be the most spectacular sunset of their lives.
Excerpt: The Factory was vast. An empire of steel and concrete with a dynasty of shafts and valves, a quagmire of gears and pipes, a sprawling shadowed country of grey and black, it seemed alive. A gargantuan beast of iron and smoke that fed on innocence with an unending appetite: day and night, night and day, eternally, ceaselessly, world without end. Sparks rose with the smoke from the impossibly tall stacks. They flew upwards into the night sky as though they dreamed of becoming stars, only to drown in the thick grey smoke. It was the kind of storybook demon. And Rex stood before it like a pup.
Excerpt: The air in the chamber was hot and still, heavy with the smell of ozone, burning the back of Kieran Nightshade's throat as she tried not to breathe too deeply. Despite the heat, she had trouble warding off a chill. Behind her, a low voice rumbled close to her ear.
Excerpt: Walking towards the outlying houses of the tahn the Shen thought of the full circle he'd made through these lands. 'Humph, it's taken me long enough to return to this place!' he thought. He saw that the village had grown, more of the trees had been cut down on the outskirts of the tahn, and he could see several foundations being put in towards the north of the tahn. The land had that hazy yellow look which always came at the end of summer, grasses turning to seed, leaves changing from a dark luscious green to light orange and then dark brown.... Responses from the readers ENB  writes: I use an online name generator to find names for my characters. The generator just makes up random names depending on letters or sounds that you pick,and if you like any of the names you are free to use them for any purpose! It's such a nice thing to have if the names aren't rolling out. Especially if (like me) you need well over one hundred names for your book series. Thanks for highlighting my piece:) Joshiahis writes: I've always tried to match names with an ethnicity I've crafted. This is a new lesson that I will promptly steal from you and incorporate into future writings. Thank you!
BIG BAD WOLF is 35 on June 3  writes: Sometimes the name just sounds right.
alysia writes: Thought I'd slip this in.  I always have a list of names floating around in notebooks. I catch them on car rides, (road signs, street names, maps), and anywhere else where a creative name may come in handy. I have a journal just for names, so I can refernce them later... even if I never use them.
pinkbarbie writes: Thank you for this newsletter. I too search the net for names and their meanings for some of my characters. brom21  writes: I'm a fantasy writer and one resource I look to for names is in the Bible. You'd be surprised at all the titles that sound very fantasy like, particularly the Greek names. Meanings behind names can create depth to a character. For instance, I used the name Lazarus to a person to illustrate a city that fell and then miraculously came back to existence; anyway, food for thought. I hope someone will find this helpful. Thanks for writing this edition of the fantasy newsletter! Danny Wayne Evans writes: Thank you SO much for writing about this prolific writer! My favorite story by him was "The Quest of Iranon". H.P. Lovecraft DEFINITELY has influenced the way I write, and I count him among the greats of literature history. Yours in writing-Danny See: "Fantasy Newsletter (September 14, 2011)"  |
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