From: mike@xenocyte.com   
      
   Jymesion  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:43:54 -0400, Brenda    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> If I were you, I would throw aside all words that are now in existence.   
   >> Make up your own, and by your own power imbue it with all the fear and   
   >> dread you need. Tolkien did it, with his balrogs and orcs. So can you.   
   >   
   > If I was starting a story from scratch, maybe (I suspect descriptions   
   > would play an important part of that, and descriptions are one of my   
   > weakest points).   
   >   
   > This story is written and needs a dread-evoking name in the first   
   > sentence.   
   >   
   > 'Demon' was never a perfect fit but had the immediate impact and some   
   > background and associations I could use.   
   >   
      
   You could have a new creature with a name that conjures fear and dread   
   immediately by its self description - for example "fleshrender". You could   
   later explain that the name is a bit of a misnomer - that the creatures   
   "render" their own bodies (flesh) in another form and it all got taken the   
   wrong way ...   
      
   The impact may be lost a bit if it isn't a familiar term, but if your   
   publishers don't want the familiar term that you thought was the best fit   
   then you're caught between a rock and a hard place ...   
      
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