I hate names (short story related) (1 Viewer)

[jhakka]

Am I the only one who can't do character or place names? At the moment I'm just writing -->village name here<-- or whatever is relevant. That's all well and good, but it makes things a lot easier to plan if I have character and place names that can be associated with... stuff.

It's so not cool.

 

[AsyLum]

hehe thats why i called my main character bob

 

[Saul]

in mine i just avoided using names altogether

 

[Thomas_wow]

my names are:

Rick O'Shea (riquochet)
Killer Kawalski (variation of my name)
Mullet Boy 2000
Magnus Magnusson
Samuel Samuelson
John Smith

make em really stupid, it makes story more interesting @_@_@

 

[chouboi]

John Citizen
is a good one

justin smells ;p
what bout www.enteryourname.org

 

[Serpentia]

ahhhh names are always difficult, because people attach different connotations to them.........

 

[jhakka]

New strategy. I'm just going to use reference names for my drafts and change them for my final product. The king's temporary name is now Miggles.

 

[Serpentia]

miggles?

LOL

 

[Enlightened_One]

yeah, my favourite name is ????, it means that later a I have to add a name. All my writings are full of it. I hate naming, of any sort, even titles of stories.

 

[:: dreami ::]

i read sumwhere that you try to use one word to define that person's character and then use words that are symbolic of that trait.

for example, if a man is malicious and cruel, we think of villain, then vary the sounding to make it into a name, like WILL LAIN.

otherwise, as i have done, i've written gone onto baby name websites and typed in a specific meaning - for example - intelligent and they will give you a list of names that have that meaning!

hope i've been usefull

 

[super katie]

I hate names. Just use numbers

 

[Menendez]

In my short story there is two different threads and one is in Ancient Rome, so I made all the modern characters have anglicised Roman names (eg. Antoni Licini, Marc Paterni etc.) or....which sometimes helps...go onto www.kabalarians.com find lists of names, close your eyes, and point!

 

[vicburke]

I used names in a different lanaguage that linked to my stories. My names are in Gaelic, Galieage and this Scottish Celtic dialect...Interesting....
NAMES ARE THE BEST BIT - Creating characters is half the fun...