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: Choosing character names is a constant difficulty I find it hard to name my characters. Every normal name sounds funny if applied to a product of my fantasy. If I take a common name, I may
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: What should I do when I am stuck on names during freewriting? If I get hung up choosing a name for a character, should I come back to it later? Or should I try to figure one out? I feel
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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-äv/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a
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: What are the Pros and Cons of long names? Background: I'm developing names for places/characters/races/etc. in my world. One example are a particular political sect. The sect are a group within
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: Character is called by their first initial. How do I write it? A character's name starts with a hard G, as in Gary. Another character (dismissively) calls him by his first initial "G", said
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: Inventing names for Sci-Fi characters How can I invent names for fictional characters in a future-setting Sci-Fi story so they won't be connected to any existing culture? I considered the following
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: How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer? In the point-of-view culture in my story, all of the women in priestly families have two-syllable names beginning with vowels.
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: Any Technique to See if Your Idea is Original? I usually get quite a lot of ideas for stories, but every time I want to develop them into a full fledged story, I get paranoid about how
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: Would it be cheating to change the main character's "name" partway through the story? I'm writing a story written in third-person limited, and the main character has no real name. They simply
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: Are connotations with certain names inevitable? In my book (fantasy novel), there's a character named Brad. Unfortunately, Brad has become synonymous with "douchebag". Now, when I first introduced
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: How to keep a main character nameless? I'm currently writing a story about a girl who was found by a couple in a magical isolated town, where everyone is named by the leader. I want her
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: What is a good way to name characters? Okay, here's what I want: I want a check list or step by step list I can use while trying to name my characters. I often have trouble coming up with
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: Tools for generating characters' names I found this name generator: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com And I'm wondering if maybe there are others? Has anybody found this kind of tool useful? What
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: Can I name a male character Artemis? So I'm writing a story and there is a character that is a male that I want to name Artemis. The reason, simply put, is that he has a sister with a
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: Every character has a name - does this lead to too many named characters? My tendency when writing is to give every character a name. Even the most minor ones. It says something about a nobleman
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: Stereotypical names In every country, some names are particularly common: 'John' in the UK, 'Juan' in Spain, 'Ivan' in Russia. Those names are common almost to the point of being stereotypical
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: Does the protagonist need a name? Does the main character in a short story need a name? My story gives lots of other details about the character.
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: What to call a main character who changes names? I'd like to write a story, in the third-person perspective, centering on a character who changes her name several times in the course of the
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: Referring to different instances of the same character in time travel I am writing a story that involves time travel, and I have a chapter where a character from the future interacts with his
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: Potential confusion: referring to home planet as "Earth" I'm writing a science fiction story and it's based in another galaxy, colonised by humans originally on a geographically equivalent "Earth".
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: Is it OK to refer to some characters by first name and to others by last name? I'm writing the outline for my first novel, which has three main characters. I'm very happy with their names,
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: Coming up with names for species in fiction? When you are writing a story that is set in a fantasy world (maybe our world with just one made-up element, or a completely different world), what
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: Characters with no names I've got a few short stories going, and I've foregone naming any of my characters. It started because I just didn't have any good names in my head and I was going
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: Characters with non-standard names My characters' names are always easy-to-read and easy-to-remember because they are common western names (like John or Oscar). However, I am writing a story that
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: How to deal with common Earth references in a non-Earth setting? Until now, I have mostly written in settings similar enough to Earth, mostly with human beings. For the first time, I am writing
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: Is there any limit on how long a story can progress without the reader knowing the name of the character introduced so far? So far, I've written about 10,000 words or so and have yet to
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: Where to take names for characters? Where to take names for characters? This is not about names, themselves. This is only about source for them. For examples: Cassandra, queen in post-apocalyptic
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: How to address family members solely by relationship in dialogue? Most English speakers probably just care about You, Mom, Dad, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grandparents, Great-Grandparents and Ancestors,
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: Naming my characters I'm writing a fantasy novel. The story takes place in England (1900's) No matter how much I research I'm unable to move forward in naming my characters. For example, When
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: How to name characters of unspecific nationality and race? I am writing a generic story. I have a setting that is not tied to a specific region on earth, though the story certainly does occur
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: How to create good character names? I find that a problem that I run into quite often is the fact that I can't create names that sound real, but also have a nice ring so that they fit
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: Help! Character naming similarity Okay so I am coming up with ideas for a potential story. I am naming my strong female protagonist and I looked up some character names. I like the old german
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: Would it confuse my readers to give two siblings nicknames that can be abbreviations of the same name? In my book, there's two brothers, who are named Nick and Cole. Now, I've always thought
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: Can a foreign language novel have English character names? Situation: My main character is born and raised in a foreign, non-English speaking country. After his 18th birthday he moves due to
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: How many meaningful names can I put in my story? I'm naming characters for my fantasy story, and so far many of them have nmes that mean something. Characters from different regions have names
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: How can I find Indian names that will be accessible to my readers? My novel is set in India, and I'm having trouble finding good but pronounceable Indian names. Many characters are royal, so
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: What are good resources to get fantasy names? I have trouble coming up with fantasy names. I've used random name generators but they weren't very helpful. Is there a website that would have
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: Where can I find resources to look up Native American names? I am currently working on writing a fantasy novel centered around pre-Columbian America, but I am at the moment unsure as to where
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: Naming Characters after Friends/Family I drafted a book two years ago that I'm now polishing to publish. When I drafted it, for speed's sake, I named one of my primary characters after an old
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: Naming Side characters So, basically, how do you name side characters? I get that you should give the main characters meaningful names, but finding suitable names for all of my characters is
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