[Luke C.]

@hope I don’t know; I don’t really consider myself an expert on the male mind. :p Most of what I can think of is already tooted in conservative circles.

@rolena-hatfield Very little: As a kid, I put together a slideshow or two of two cats with subtitles that had an annoying song which was probably not appropriate for children. Then when I and some friends were close to graduating from high school, we tried to put together a Sherlock Holmes themed short film, but we never finished it. I did a little bit of script editing on that project and played the villain.

[Luke C.]

Thanks, everyone.

@Daeus, no, I haven’t written much lately and I haven’t fully regained the interest to write books. College takes up a lot of my time, and I am taking World Literature I this semester, so I’ll be writing for that. I’m more of a visual person, so film-making has been more of a interest to me, but I have had little success in finding a like-minded crew nor do I have much experience in that field. 🙁

[Luke C.]

You could research the languages of people groups (Saxons, Greeks, French, Prussians, Native Americans, etc.) that are similar to the cultures in your world and create a small etymology–a history of words and names that are relevant to the book(s). And then piece together syllables of names that sound like they fit with the culture of the country/kingdoms that you are working on in the story.

(I don’t have much experience with creating names, other than I made them up from the top of my head (e.g. “Mastoderous”, “Norwertqau”, “Rezaboh”, “King Aparohynua.”) So, this is just an idea, but I believe Tolkien did something similar with Lord of the Rings.)

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