August 31, 2006
It's All in the Name

I don't usually spend too much time agonizing over character names. Most of the time I go with a pair of names that I like and don't look back. But, believe it or not, as I begin developing a plot, naming the secondary characters is more difficult. Suddenly, you can't have names that look or sound too much like the main characters' names. With Internet technology being what it is, finding names is easy. Here are some sites for name generating:

The Character Name Generator - This one is the most straight forward. You type in the desired gender and a first and last name appear.

Baby Name List - This site allows you to choose the ethnic background and gender (African Girls or Egyptian Boys) then view an alphabetical list of names in that category.

The Random Name Generator - The fun thing about this generator is that it allows you to generate several names at a time based on an obscurity factor (1=Common, 50=Not so common, 99=Totally obscure)

Posted by robynamos at August 31, 2006 11:24 AM