: Re: 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

My suggestion is to do what you would do every time you're stuck on something: make anything up, and move on. A name, more than any other words, is often nothing but a place marker. Once you come up with a good name, you can make a search-and-substitute across the whole document with one single operation.

I generally try to come up with names based on the sound they have in the sentence, the way they change the pace and musicality of the sentence. My point being: if you don't have anything in mind, just go for the sound and pace, to make the passage sound smooth.

Another great criteria for names is their meaning: if in your world names have meanings, or etymology, go for it. References are also a smart idea: in The Name of the Rose, Eco calls his protagonist "Guglielmo da Baskerville" as a reference to Sherlock Holmes.

Finally, a software like Scrivener includes a tool to randomly generate coherent names, where you can specify the letters in it, the initials, the length, etc.

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