: 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

@Angela458

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Most people are answering the implicit question of "How do I generate a list of names", instead of the title question.

If that's what you want, could you edit the title to fit?

I'd say, if you don't need a name immediately, give them a placeholder, like "{A}", then just keep describing their actions or whatever, and fill in the name later, going progressively down the alphabet when you need more names.

But if you're choosing meaningful names, then a name change would change the course of your story, so it may be best to pick it before continuing.

Then again, once you know what they do in your story, a meaningful name may be easier to find.

Events are usually the same, no matter what the names of things are...

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