Tag: words
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Real slang for an imaginary world
My fantasy world characters toss around a lot of jargon and slang specific to their reality.I love constructing their everyday lingo. I do thousands of hours of language and historical research and write thousands of words in background notes before I settle on the words and phrases my characters use to describe made-up events, issues, and concepts. And then I […]
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Labeling superpowers: a tricky trick.
The first of two posts about the superpowers system in my fantasy series, The Rough Passages Tales.