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#63
One of my character is Nigerian,Igbo, and I want her to make a reference to Igbo culture/Igbo gods what are some popular Igbo gods and Igbo cultural stuff?
I don’t know much about the Igbo culture but I would check out these links to help you with your story. Remember, you don’t have to go crazy with cultural information. I’m not saying don’t be accurate but just don’t put too much in. Unless you are describing a ritual or something like that connected to the culture and religion. Let me know if you have any more questions.
https://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Igbo-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html
#64
How do I write a good poetry about the strong love a god and a goddess have for each other.
Okay, I’m not an avid poetry writer but the advice that I would give is to work with synonyms. I’m linking below some articles to help you that are based on gods/goddesses, love, and tips about poetry. Let me know if you need more help.
https://hellopoetry.com/words/goddess/
#65
How do is describe a beautiful woman properly?
When it comes to describing beautiful women you want to pick romanticizing words to help. Now, you don’t have to go risque tone in order to do so. You can easily describe a beautiful woman without referring to anything sexual. To be honest, the best form of how to describe a beautiful woman is hands down Greek Mythology. The books that are based on culture, people, myths, and everything is a work of art in itself. I would check out some of the books. Check out the links below. Let me know if you need any more help.
#66
How do I describe an innocent lady?
A good way to describe an innocent woman would be by going over her more pure attributes. You don’t want to make her gullible unless that is what you are going for. You’ll want to write a kind character that is a good-natured person with a fresh look at life. They are always going to see the good side of others even if there is a bad side but they will mainly focus on the good. A good example would be most of the characters that Anne Hathway has acted in except the heist movie and Catwoman. Check out the links below to see if they can help you out. As I’ve said above let me know if you need any more help.
https://dictionary.reverso.net/english-synonyms/innocent+girl
Any more questions?
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it’s been long since you’ve posted
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Oh right, I will post the questions in about 30-40 minutes. I have to make a phone call to State Farm.
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@WolfGamerGirl37 it’s been 30 minutes
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She’s onto it now.
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Sorry for the delay! I’m changing insurance which is why it took so long to get it done.
#67
how do I write Mexican characters?
So, I don’t have much advice to give you that is mine readily since I’ve never written a Mexican character before. Though I’m going to tag @lollipoplady since I know she knows much more on this subject than I. All I can’ say is stick to what the articles and the information Post_Melancholic gives for your character. Here are the articles plus some threads on the forums that I will be posting below:
- https://forum.shanniiwrites.com/t/information-on-mexican-culture/10178
- https://forum.shanniiwrites.com/t/representing-latinx-character-don-ts/827
https://forums.episodeinteractive.com/t/how-to-write-mexican-hispanic-characters/346691
#68
Is blindness a disability?
Yes, being blind is a disability. I have to wear glasses on daily basis because of how blind I am. It’s not a full disability for me since I can still wear glasses but you do have to learn a whole another life when it comes to being blind. this is not to say that it will hinder you too much but it’s something that has to be handled in a certain way. So, I will post some articles that go over writing about blind characters for you.
https://celstefani.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/6-tips-on-how-to-write-effective-blind-characters/
#69
What are some disabilities I can include in my fantasy realm? I don’t want my world to be all able-bodied.
Okay, so these are some articles that might help you out. I would suggest blindness, mute, deaf, and even the ability to not walk are good ones to use. You just have to pick the one you want to go with. Check the articles out below.
https://aealexander.com/eight-fantasy-books-with-sick-and-disabled-characters/
https://www.theillustratedpage.net/disability-and-neurodivergence-in-fantasy-and-science-fiction/
#70
How do I write a mute character properly
I would suggest looking up medical facts about mute characters since that way you can also use real medical points in your story if that is what you want to do. Check out these articles below. Let me know if you need more help. I will try to look up more information if you need it. I didn’t find that much information as of right now though.
https://curiosityquills.com/limyaael/mute-non-speaking-characters/
#71
How do I create a fantasy food? Like how do I invent dishes/drinks in my fantasy realm
Well, you’ll need to read these articles to get a better idea for that. This fits into worldbuilding section. If you really want to check out something like Star Wars, and other franchises that do not use normal food in their worlds. I’ll post a link to the wookiepedia food page for Star Wars.
#72
How do I create beautiful fictional fashion/outfits?
It’s all about description when it comes to clothing. You’ll want to use the thesaurus that I will link below to get descriptive language used when describing clothing. I’m going to add a paragraph from my main story to give you an idea what you can use. Let me know if you need anymore help!
My Writing
Dantesha was wearing a mesh-like undergarment that sat underneath her dark blue tunic with golden roses adorned on it wrapped around her body from the right shoulder to a tight knot clipped with a gold ornament clip in the shape of a rose around her left side of her waist. Her face was covered with a sheer veil that was clipped to the netted mesh hairnet, but her dark brown white-tipped wolf ears popped out on top of her veiled headdress.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-give-your-characters-style#quiz-0
https://fromnothingtonovel.com/2017/04/21/8-tips-for-dressing-your-characters/
#73
How do I create a fictional sport?
It all depends on what kind of sport you are going for. Since, you haven’t made preference for a certain sport I can only send you to articles that go over just creating sports in fiction. Check out the links below if you need any more help please send in a more specific sport idea so that I can help you out a bit more.
https://www.standoutbooks.com/sports-fiction/
#74
How do I create fictional currency?
This is a good question to ask. I would suggest you check out the articles below. It depends on how you want to go about money for your story. Do you want several types of currencies or one type of currency. Let me know if you need anymore help.
Some Very Basic Tips For Creating Fictional Currencies « PekoeBlaze - the official blog.
#75
How do I create different villages/country in my fictional world?
I hope this helps out! I also found a website called Inkarnate that helps you make maps for your worlds. So that could also help you as well. It’s all about world building exercises that help you with writing about towns, cities, villages, and countries in your world.
http://magicwriter.co.uk/worldbuilding-countries-and-terrain/
https://thecollaborativegamer.wordpress.com/towns/a-system-for-creating-fantasy-villages-towns-and-cities/
https://www.jacquelyneubanks.com/small-town-world-building/
https://inkarnate.com/
#76
Creating a fictional outfit?
Alright, I’m going to refer you to the same answer I gave question 72. It’s all about description when it comes to clothing. You’ll want to use the thesaurus that I will link below to get descriptive language used when describing clothing. I’m going to add a paragraph from my main story to give you an idea what you can use. Let me know if you need anymore help!
My Writing
Dantesha was wearing a mesh-like undergarment that sat underneath her dark blue tunic with golden roses adorned on it wrapped around her body from the right shoulder to a tight knot clipped with a gold ornament clip in the shape of a rose around her left side of her waist. Her face was covered with a sheer veil that was clipped to the netted mesh hairnet, but her dark brown white-tipped wolf ears popped out on top of her veiled headdress.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-give-your-characters-style#quiz-0
https://fromnothingtonovel.com/2017/04/21/8-tips-for-dressing-your-characters/
#77
what are some other goddess of beauty/love I can compare my character too? I don’t want to use Aphrodite because I dont like her.
Well, that is perfectly fine to not like her. She is a widely annoyingly known goddess of love. Check the links below to see if you can use any of these. There are multiple deities/gods/goddess/spirits that are connected to love. One of them should help you out. I can’t promise there is not anything about Aphrodite in the articles just skip past those parts. Let me know if you need anymore help!
https://www.learnreligions.com/deities-of-love-and-marriage-2561983
https://www.greatvaluevacations.com/travel-inspiration/love-spirits-worshiped-around-the-world
https://www.learnreligions.com/top-love-goddesses-118521
https://vocal.media/futurism/gods-and-goddesses-of-love-in-mythology
https://stillunfold.com/history/10-goddess-of-love-and-beauty-from-different-mythologies-their-stories
https://www.goddess-guide.com/goddess-of-love.html
#78
Can you tell me a little about Yoruba mythology?
I found some these links. I really hope they help you out! I’ve never looked this mythology up before so it’s was definitely an interesting search. Let me know if you need any specific parts for me to look it up for you.
http://www.gateway-africa.com/stories/Yoruba_Creation_Myth.html#:~:text=The%20Yoruba%20tribe%20of%20West,Olokun%20ruled%20what%20was%20below.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oshun
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nigeria/yorubarel.html
https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/mythology-of-africa/the-creation-of-the-universe-and-ife
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-in-africa/article/abs/historiography-of-yoruba-myth-and-ritual/09E8E2D405ADD582658F81FFC57B4757
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I can help you with the Mexican characters, but my first question is:
Are you writing about Mexicans that live in Mexico, or are they first (or second) generation Mexicans living in the United States?
This could make a difference if the character’s family wants to preserve their cultural traditions while the character might want to try to fit in with their American friends, for example.
What religion is your character? Roman Catholicism is the primary religion in Mexico, but some of us are Protestant Christians as well. There are also people who aren’t religious or might follow a religion that is less common here. This could influence your characters beliefs and lifestyle. Do they go to mass with their families on Sundays, or do they go to a church service? Catholics may celebrate religious holidays that non-Catholic Christians don’t, such as December 12th (The day of the Virgin of Guadalupe).
What kind of pet names or nicknames do they have for friends and family, if any? Some shortened versions of names are pretty popular in Mexico, like:
Francisco - Paco / Pancho
Enrique - Kike
Lourdes - Lulú / Lula
Or sometimes people will call you by the first part of their name, like:
Marianna (Mary / Mari)
Emiliano (Emi)
Food is also a very important part of Mexican culture. Each region has its own traditional dishes, and there are certain dishes that are usually eaten during a particular time of the year. For example, chiles en nogada are usually eaten around September.
Please tag me or PM me if you have any further questions!
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Hey 69, I can help!
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The MC in one of my stories (in progress) is mute, so feel free to come to me if you need anything else :]
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@WolfGamerGirl37 anymore?
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Yep, I will post them later. I’m at work right now.
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ok
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@Kristi just a heads up. I have a lot of responses so I’m only posting a portion of them tonight.
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#79
How do I create a well fictional ages range? Likr first example on earth the character would be 15 but in another planet their age would be higher.
Okay, I had a hard time finding some links about this. If this doesn’t help then you can pm me so I can get a better idea of what to look for. I’m guessing you are talking about how to create a fictional age range that would be different from our age ranges. There are a few ways to go about this which are commonly used in the pets we have today. Such as Dogs are 7 years old at year one then you times 7 against the number of years to get the correct age. This is similar to cats as well who are aged differently than humans. Though since I’m not sure of what type of setting your story is but I can at least tell you how I age my characters. Time flows differently in between the human world and the non-human worlds. What would be 20 years in the human world would be 200 years in the non-human worlds. The non-human worlds are millions to trillion years old so many of the characters are millions of years old. So, my age cap for teenagers/young adults starts at about 2-5 million years old. Then adults start at 10 million and up.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/
#80
How do I describe East Asian (Korean, Japanese , Chinese) characters?
Alright, I actually in the same boat as you. I have a story based on Japanese characters in Episode app that I’m trying to transfer to novel form. Since Asians range between a multitude of different shades depending on where they live. For instance, in Japan, if you go to the northern part of the main island their skin is porcelain/light ocre color. Then if you go to Okinawa which is the second or third island part of Japan. Okinawans are a mix of porcelain/light ocre to a taupe-like color. I’m using colors from Episode Ink style to explain the skin colors. I went to Japan so that is why I know of the different skin-tone ranges. It just depends on where your character lives. I’m going to post some links below. Let me know if you need any more help. I’m actually going to tag @LHT since she has knowledge about this topic that could help.
https://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=109904
#81
How do I write Japanese characters
I do have a story that is based on Japanese characters. It is in Ink style on Episode. You can read it to get an idea of what to do. I’ll post the link below. I’m also reposting the links above since they could still help you out. I’m adding some links that are based on just Japanese character’s descriptions to help you out more specific to your question.
https://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=109904
#82
Can you help me with information about the Mohawk tribe? In my fictional world there is a particular group of people I would like to code as native American (by this "coding" I mean something like Avatar. You know in the avatar human continents don’t exist and so Katara and the water tribe in a way aren’t native american/inuit but they are coded as such and in the real human world will/should be viewed as such.) especially code them as native Americans from the mohawk tribe
This is everything I could find so far. If you need more direct information then please pm me or send another response. I hope this helps you out. I’ve not looked into the Mohawk tribe since I was at school as a kid. So, I’m not much help in giving tips for this. I would say just follow the culture and heritage of the Mohawk tribe that is explained in the links below.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/mohawk-tribe-history-facts-culture.html
https://www.pinterest.com/raymills43/mohawk-indians/
#83
How do I create my own font for my book cover? or could someone help a gal out?
Okay, so I don’t know how to create fonts but I know @lollipoplady has some knowledge of this. I actually use the website below to pick good fonts for my stories and edits I make for people. If you are going to put any fonts in your episode story, Wattpad, or Tapas story make sure to use only the 100% Free and public domain. I’ll post some links about how to make fonts as well.
https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/typography-font-design.html
#84
How do I make my other character have the ¨second lead syndrome¨
I had no idea what this even was until I looked it up. Let me know if you need anymore help with this. I’ll try to lookup more if this wasn’t what you needed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KDRAMA/comments/kz3891/how_do_you_cope_with_second_lead_syndrome/
https://www.webnovel.com/book/stating-the-facts-all-we-know-about-movies-and-dramas_16507128805190505/second-lead-syndrome_44311334728288652
#85
how do I write a good example of unrequited love in my story
Alright, I would check these links out to get a good idea of coming up with a good example of unrequited love. I would say to add in some relatable feelings that normally go with this type of situation. Let me know if you need any more help.
https://ishouldwritethatdown.blog/2017/09/13/writing-unrequited-love/
#86
how do i create a fantasy animal
Have fun making your animal! The best tip I can give you is to base the actions of the animal on real animals in the world to add a realistic image.
http://www.happyhealthymessy.com/2019/02/steam-design-fantasy-animal/
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/creating-a-fantasy-creature
#87
Would someone please draw an art cover for me?
Uh…you need to make a thread in the request section to get a cover made for your story. This is really more about advice than requests. I’ll tag the @Artists but you should make a request in the open. I’m sure there are many who would like to create your cover.
Please…hold off on responses until I finish posting the ones I have. It’s going to be 9 per post until I can get the number down. That means three more posts before any more questions can be asked. After these next 3 posts, I will be implementing a schedule for me to keep up with everything.
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bumping cause I’m bored
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Added a tag
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