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u/WhoTheHellKnows · 14 pointsr/zoology

The rest of the collective names seem to be just as made up. Unless there is a competing name, "starship" is it.

Sort of like Mort Walkter's Lexicon of Comicana. It was satire, but since it provided names for things that didn't have names, his neologisms have been accepted.
https://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Comicana-Mort-Walker/dp/059508902X

u/mtm5891 · 2 pointsr/comicbooks

A little advice from one writer to another, you gotta chill on the excessive double quotations and exposition.

Double quotations are typically used to show speech. You seem to be using it for emphasis, which is fine for casual conversation but in script writing is best achieved via italics or single quotations, i.e. 'apostrophes.' Otherwise the quotations alongside the parentheses and other forms of punctuation leave your paragraph looking cluttered and disjointed.

As for the exposition, if you have to explain your phrasings to readers, then they're likely ineffective and shouldn't be used in the first place. For example in another comment you explained what you meant by 'no name' which was unnecessary. I say this because A) it's a commonplace phrase and B) you explained what it meant anyways which defeats the purpose of saying it in the first place. It seems apparent to me that you're falling into a trap a lot of writers do when they first start out, myself included, which is assuming that readers won't figure out what you're hinting at unless you explicitly say it in the text. Assuming your analogies are sensical and your name isn't James Joyce, nine times out of ten your audience will figure out the meaning of your wordplay without an issue.

I don't mean any of this as some sort of attack, just sharing honest advice I've picked up over the years that've helped sharpen my own skills. In that same vein, you should check out The Elements of Style and The Lexicon of Comicana. They've both helped me obtain a better grasp on language and comics as art forms and I'm sure would be of great help to you as well. Good luck! :)