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Does this excerpt strike a balance between the formality of steampunk and accessible writing?

If you had not specified that the setting was meant to be steam-punk, then I would not have inferred that from your sample. I was going to comment on the fact that your use of contractions strikes me as incongruous for the supposed time period. Then I came upon "Crap," he muttered and all other concerns paled into insignificance. The short answer to your ...


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Coming up with names for species in fiction?

I made up some nice thrush species! White-tailed Sporcler Great Blueback Sooty Saw-wing Nutmeg Hawking Thrush Maritime Thrush Spatulate-tailed Thrush Mountain Flannelwing Desert Flannelwing Rockhopper Bluebird Greater Yellow-crowned Bluebird Orange-footed Cactus Robin Gray-eared Robin Common Purplechest And finally... Westheimer's Undulating ...



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