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Naming Things In Creative Writing

ForzareForzare
edited 2011-05-21 00:00:21 in General
Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
This is by far the element of writing that I'm worst at.  I can come up with concepts and such just fine, but names are hard.

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Comments

  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    Just go with whatever sounds nice.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    but i don't need nice

    i need something cool and intimidating

    Also, easier said than done.  :(
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    http://seventhsanctum.com/
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    That site seems pretty useful.  Bookmark'd.  But I need something specific right now, and I can't get anything I like for this one issue from that site.

    HELP ME IJBM

    A name for my villains.  They're a nearly infinite race of alternate humans from a parallel universe, which an spread themselves with the virus.

    "The arm was too long, and far too thin. Its
    fingers, like the rest of it, were skeletal, far too long, and
    sharp. They looked more like talons than fingers. And the entire
    length seemed to be excreting a viscous black fluid. Wherever it
    dripped off and touched the ground, the rainwater steamed, boiled
    instantly."


    "...the hand clenched into a fist, and what I
    can only describe as a blade of bone, three feet long, erupted from
    the thing's forearm, spraying droplets of the black goo everywhere."


    "At least eight feet tall, it's shape was
    vaguely humanoid. But like it's arms, everything was too long, too
    thing. It's feet ended in the same talon-like appendages that it's arms
    did, and it oozed black liquid from every inch of skin.
    The worst, though, was the head. It was nothing more than a
    human skull, the teeth filed to sharp points, coated in the corrosive
    black liquid. Two deep red orbs of light sat nestled in it's open eye
    sockets.

    The impossible jaw opened ... and a thousand
    voices issued forth, all speaking the same words. Men's voices,
    women's voices, children's voices, all speaking in unison, all from
    one mouth."

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    Tableflipper
    Necrotorrent?
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    How about "Unity?" Nice, simple, easy to remember, but creepy in the right context.
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    Tableflipper
    I'd think "The United" would work better in that sense, at least if the intention is to name the species.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Ooh, I like that.

    The Unity.

    That could work.
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