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Originally posted by crez crez wrote:

Originally posted by snuffles snuffles wrote:

Obscure gods, including the god of gay sex (Xochipaxil), the god of crapping your pants after a night of drinking (Akratos), God pf preserved penises (Qebehsenuef) and many others. 

Is it just me, or do these also sound like good names for pharmaceuticals?

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Originally posted by shanan187 shanan187 wrote:

Originally posted by Rullawaykid Rullawaykid wrote:

Originally posted by shanan187 shanan187 wrote:

I sat here earlier for an embarrassingly long time trying to remember the word "denial." So I totally feel you.

I, an English graduate, once spent several minutes trying to remember how to spell goed (goed? gode? goad?). Goed - you know, the past tense of go.

That is fantastic. I once asked my mom in a fit of absolute frustration how to spell “of” (I was in high school at the time). She looked at me like I’d lost my mind. She said, “O-f” and I was like HOW… how is there not a V in that word?! She was like “aren’t you in honors classes?” LMAO
I've also done this, how is it not Ove.  I also once couldn't remember how to spell blue, I could only remember how to spell it in French, which of course has all the same letters.
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Year Dirty Dancing came out
Lyrics to Bonnie Tyler songs
Colours of Porsche 911s
Phases of the moon

My character took over - not things I expected to need for my story!
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Originally posted by Rullawaykid Rullawaykid wrote:

Originally posted by shanan187 shanan187 wrote:

I sat here earlier for an embarrassingly long time trying to remember the word "denial." So I totally feel you.

I, an English graduate, once spent several minutes trying to remember how to spell goed (goed? gode? goad?). Goed - you know, the past tense of go.


Whenever I can't think of a word I know that I should know, I use the OneLook thesaurus.

Basically you can type a general description of what you're looking for and it gives you many words (as opposed to a normal thesaurus where you have to type one word). For example, if I couldn't think of denial, I would type something like "when you know something is true but don't want to believe it." I just tried it and the first synonym it gave me was denial Smile
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My genre is Historical Fiction, and I decided to write a story about a specific situation in history, so I googled, "Mormon adoption of Native American Children," and read about three research papers lol.

Just fyi the word "adoption" isn't the best word to describe what was actually happening in this situation...
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Originally posted by Kneazle Kneazle wrote:

No egg retrieval from women for fertility treatments, egg freezing etc.

As a way of controlling population numbers in the world my story is set in I want them to get all the eggs out of girls at puberty and store them since women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have.

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Originally posted by TessaK TessaK wrote:

Originally posted by Rullawaykid Rullawaykid wrote:

Originally posted by shanan187 shanan187 wrote:

I sat here earlier for an embarrassingly long time trying to remember the word "denial." So I totally feel you.

I, an English graduate, once spent several minutes trying to remember how to spell goed (goed? gode? goad?). Goed - you know, the past tense of go.


Whenever I can't think of a word I know that I should know, I use the OneLook thesaurus.

Basically you can type a general description of what you're looking for and it gives you many words (as opposed to a normal thesaurus where you have to type one word). For example, if I couldn't think of denial, I would type something like "when you know something is true but don't want to believe it." I just tried it and the first synonym it gave me was denial Smile

This is game changing!

I just goed look at it (sorry, I had to... LOL ) and it's brilliant!
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Originally posted by Laquinton Laquinton wrote:

Year Dirty Dancing came out
Lyrics to Bonnie Tyler songs
Colours of Porsche 911s
Phases of the moon

My character took over - not things I expected to need for my story!

I looked up whether Patrick Swayze danced across a river or a stream in Dirty Dancing! Then, equipment needed for birding. Turns out you don't need that much equipment to go birding. Who knew!
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When was "Ferdinand the Bull" published? 
What did they call area rugs in 1900?
What noises do seals make? 
Names of seashells 

It's been fun so far ... not! But learning a lot, which I will be using to try to get on Jeopardy
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Originally posted by MGlass MGlass wrote:

currently "World's largest puppet"


I built a giant puppet once. His name is Fezzig, and he stands over 9 feet tall when completely put together. His head hangs in one of my closets. Alas, not the world's largest. And I definitely need to read your story.
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