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August 03, 2007, 07:55:54 AM »
Really, going in school and study english doesn't really give you all of the words you might need whenever you are writng...
First of all during my absense from interent and/or any kind of dictionary I realised that I don't know what the parts of the ship is called, just the helm but I'm not ever sure that's the real word... That witch told me that it was a helmet in FFIII and I believed her.
Second thing was clothes, doesn't you have any other word foor more sturdy shoes than boots? I've been using that word for liek every cahracter and it feels so repeating that I want to shoot myself.
And what about dresses and robes? Gown, garbs? I can't even tell them apart so every character who is a man and is wearing such a thing is wearing a robe. Any female is a flip with a coin to decide if I should write dress or robe.
And female shirts and the kind drives me crazy, anyone got a link to a site for like 6-year olds with one of these pictures of different kinds of clothes and their names?
Yeah, wounds as well, I know that a wound can be open and that it can gush blood, I know that it can be a cut and the like but from time to time I don't know what to write so I'd like some medical-thingy that describes wounds as well...
While I'm at it, hairstyles, description of faces just basicly. That is another thing that has bothered me, I just can't seem to find the right words to explain the characters faces or shape for that matter, isn't there a more formal way of saying that a female has a rather umm... bumpy chest(sp)?
Yeah, umm... to describe accessories and the kind, been having some slight problem with that as well...
Ok, note that I'm exaggirating a bit, but it just bothers me really.
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August 03, 2007, 11:42:47 AM »
OK, long read, sorry but here we go:
1. You could probably look on google images for a labelled chart of ship sections,
2. Assuming I have the correct time period, men wear robes, but some just wear a breastplate with chainmail armor underneath. A cloak or mantle can be worn as well. For women, dresses or robes may be worn, but a regular shirt is called a blouse, and you could have a skirt to cover the bottom half. A thesaurus works in all cases for many things, to items and the like.
3. For wounds, you can always get a couple sentences which sound informal to fit in to a character bio:
Info for Lief. --> 54 Year old Businessman
"In his younger years, Lief fought in a crude boxing club, recieving many scars on both his face and upper torso. His right arm is paralyzed completely, and he actively searches for and donates towards a cure for human paralysis and muscular atrophy. He has suffered some cranial (head) damage in his young adulthood, therefore he is a little slower but can catch up with in an instant.
In the next 26 years he worked towards a successful shipping company which is used around our world. "DeliverQuick" is a widely expanding, multi-national shipping conglomerate with 14 governments buying into it's stocks."
4. Faces are pretty easy to describe to me, just list the features. And to say a woman "has a rather umm... bumpy chest(sp)?"
you can say:
- well-endowed
- prominent chest
you can say it like "
her name
is a well-endowed woman, and much to her dismay many men young and old harass her because of this fact." This can also add a new aspect to the game, if you wanted two of the characters to fall in love, so that the man is always protecting this woman, and you could set up a couple of battles around this.
5. Ok... Accessories and any item should have either a description of what they look like, or a description of the effect they cause.
A mythic sword could go as this:
[GLOW]Sword of Atropolis[/GLOW]
This two-handed sword acts as a light in darkness.
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And on a dark map, it could actually light it up and prevent battles with weaker monsters
Ok, sorry again for such a long read, but I hope this helps.
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August 03, 2007, 01:35:52 PM »
Try out
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
. Even us native English speakers have to look at a thesaurus once in a while.
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August 03, 2007, 01:37:45 PM »
This'll be easier than using a frigging book!
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