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Giving Names to Fictional Characters

If you are going to have a baby, I bet you are busy to think about its name. Simply because a name is a prayer, an image. Wrong in naming, wrong in the future. Ask any brand strategist, ask any parent. Giving names to the fictional characters too.

If you really don’t have any idea, try to look up the dictionary, White Pages, visit some naming websites, or other fictions. I am quite surprised that these days there are authors who still have a problem in naming her heroes.

How to Appraise a Movie

Sometimes we make a different appraisal with others. You said A is a good movie, your friend said it boring one. It is very normal. Different individual, different taste, different point of view.

However, there is always a standard, if I can say it “standard”.

8 Basic Steps to Write A Superhero Story

What? Write a superhero story? Maybe you’ll say, “No thanks. I’m not that childish.” Hey, who said superhero is only for children? Yes, it was. But right now, superheroes stories are widely, variously segmented. Beside, write a superhero character and story is never easy. Because at least you should have conceptualized well:

Take A Look Around for Writing Inspiration

Waiting for inspiration

Pretty often, we the writers are attacked by a so-called laziness virus. Doing research for the next story for a time bores us too. It’s stressful! How to make a story without feel it as a burden? If it’s your question (and was mine), here the dos list I suggest:

Go out. Take adventure beyond the routines. Like Jean-Mari Gustave Le Clézio, the 2008’s Nobel Prizewinner in the field of literature, did. It will give you things to write.
Listen to other’s story. You will amaze how your ordinary friends have quite interesting experience. At least, it can be a trigger for your work.
You love the songs? Ok. Listen to the lyrics, not merely the music. Sometime it’s inspiring enough as a starting point.
Or, just take a look around you. Believe it or not, every object near you has a meaning. You just need to be more critical and imaginative about objects that used to be insignificant to you.
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