What do you consider to be elements?

Helium, oxygen, mercury, gold... ha, ha.

More elements usually appear in video games--Final Fantasy, for example, has those four and throughout the series Ice, Lightning, Poison, Light, and Dark.

In my fiction, the forces of Light, Darkness, Arcane, and Void could be considered elements. Nature and Weather could also be considered forces, but not as much "elements".

"Elements" is a very complex word with many meanings . . . but with your mentioning of "fire, water, earth and wind," it would appear that you're looking for elements in the sense of physical "matter."

The "normal four" are very ancient and obsolete terms for the "elements." Fire, water, earth and wind are not elements in the modern sense, anymore than the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.

Now, the "elements" are considered to be those things which are the simplist form of matter (conventionally speaking). Water, for example, is NOT an "element" because it is made up of two elements: hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen, on the other hand, are not made up of other things and thus are "elements." There are approximately 103 of these elements, which in combination make up every substance known. Water, for example, is a combination of the two elements hydrogen and oxygen... Often the chemical combination of elements results in a substance which bears no resemblance to the two elements that made it up. In short, elements are comprised solely of "atoms," which do not break down into other substances without EXTREME difficulty (that's why there's so much interest in "atomic energy"). Everything else is made up of some combination of these elements/atoms. Water only has the two elements, but some substances have more than two . . . and that's why there's so much variety in "matter."

Whew. I thought that was going to be easy.

There should be a table of them in the back of your chemistry book. My favorite one is Argon.

The elements of good writing are a clear, pleasant prose style, vivid metaphors and showing the [male] reader your characters' qualities, rather than telling him about them.

Anything featured in the periodic table - lead, copper and tin, but not brass, bronze or pewter which are alloys.