: 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

@Jennifer354

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Keep a list of names

Early in Time Clare's writing podcast Couch to 80k he sets the reader a task of spending 10 minutes inventing names.

I loathe and detest coming up with names, and was dreading it. But I found that approaching the job as an end in itself, with no particular goal in mind, very liberating, and I easily jotted down a page full.

He then invites the listener to look over the list and see if any of them suggest a character. But he also points out that such a list is extremely useful to have around if you're writing and suddenly need the name of an incidental character.

So: write a list. Keep it around. You might find it more fun and more useful than it sounds.

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