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Matthew Brown posted an update in the group
Beans in Dungeons 3 years, 12 months agoJust FYI, if you pop over to the site, you can vote on the name of one of the main characters.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic How do you name characters? in the forum Aspiring Authors 3 years, 12 months ago
I cheat. I grab a list of random names and just use one of those. At the end of writing, if the name is not a good fit, I change it using a quick search and replace.
This is how you stop character names giving you writer’s block
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Blog: This is how you stop character names giving you writer’s block from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 3 years, 12 months agoThis is how you stop character names giving you writer’s blockFor some writers, character name selection can cause massive writer’s block. Naming your char […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
This is how you stop character names giving you writer’s block in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 3 years, 12 months agoFor some writers, character name selection can cause massive writer’s block. Naming your characters can seem like the most pressing issue you have as a writer.
What if I told you it did not matter?
This is […]
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Toni McHadden started the topic How do you name characters? in the forum Aspiring Authors 3 years, 12 months ago
I suck at names. I can spend days trying to get the right name for bit-part characters.
How do you fine people name yours?
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Blog: Potion from
Beans in Dungeons in the group Beans in Dungeons 3 years, 12 months agoToday, I have an extra treat for you. Today, we start the voting process to name the purple bean. You can see the most recent vote on the voting page.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Imaginary creatures need your help in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 12 months agoWhen you are bored or waiting to fall asleep, you escape to your own special daydream. You imagine a magical woodland where you are the powerful green mage that protects the woods. One of your favourite imaginary […]
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 85: UglyCarpet from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 12 months agoMonster of the Week 85 is UglyCarpet, sorry to say it’s very bad, hurts your eyes, doesn’t do or say anything, starting to think it’s just a regular, ugly […]
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Blog: Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel review – modern medicine’s racial divide from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoThe colonial legacy of healthcare is laid bare in an urgent, impeccably researched study of how medicine has progressed – and who has been left behindIt was May 2 […]
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Blog: Children’s Picture Book Tests for Colour Blindness from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 12 months agoThe post Children’s Picture Book Tests for Colour Blindness appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Word of the Day – Irradiant from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 12 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Irradiant appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Bob Woodward’s third book in Trump trilogy to cover handling of pandemic from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoNew book Peril follows Fear and Rage, and is based on hundreds of interviews as well as diaries, secret orders and phone transcriptsUS politics – live c […]
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Blog: End of level loot from
Beans in Dungeons in the group Beans in Dungeons 3 years, 12 months agoThere’s nothing quite as disappointing as the disappointment of a mostly empty treasure chest. Although, given how they skipped most of the encounter, I think the […]
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Blog: Instagram user accused of capitalising from Ijeoma Oluo’s anti-racist book from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoThe white woman behind the popular Instagram account @soyouwanttotalkabout has apologised after claims that she has co-opted the black author’s brandThe white w […]
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Blog: Dutch literary prize ceremony cancelled over winner’s Desi Bouterse comments from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoAstrid Roemer, the Surinamese winner of the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, came under fire after showing support for Dési Bouterse, who was convicted of […]
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Blog: Phantom or Fact: A Dialogue in Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoWritten towards the end of the poet’s life, this mysterious exchange shows him reflecting on the ‘spirit’ he has lostPhantom or Fact: A Dialogue in Verse […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Selected writing prompts from @WeWriteDragons in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 12 months agoThe Twitter account @WeWriteDragons shares a lot of great writing prompts. Here are just a few that I really liked.
If you liked these, follow @WeWriteDragons for loads more daily.
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Blog: I Read Stories: Pot Roast by Alyson Mosquera Dutemple from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 12 months agoPot Roast by Alison Mosquera Dutemple in Okay Donkey While cooking a pot roast in the pressure cooker the narrator’s son rubs a lamp and the fairy godmother c […]
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Blog: Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman – review from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoThis wise meditation on human transience strikes a perfect balance between self-help manual and philosophical odysseyIn the current average human lifespan we get […]
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Blog: On a Poet’s Birthday – Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 12 months agoThe post On a Poet’s Birthday – Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Word of the Day – Necial from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 12 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Necial appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: ‘I love the perversity of it’: Bad Seed Warren Ellis on how Nina Simone’s gum inspired a book from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 12 months agoAn unlikely keepsake taken from Simone’s last London concert has become the basis of an unusual memoir by the longtime Nick Cave collaboratorOn the evening of 1 J […]
