Friday
Apr012011
Contest Trivia
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 2:39PM Did you know...
...authors have innovative ways of choosing names for their characters? The lecherous PI character Winston Chambers, in the bestselling romantic suspense LANCELOT’S LADY by author Cherish D’Angelo, was named by one of Cherish’s blog readers during her “Create a Corpse” contest.
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Reader Comments (8)
Arlyn Roycraft
I always thought that the obits in the news papers had some interesting names.
Vijay Ellaurie
Maybe by their personality n character profiles...
James K. Burk
Any number of ways, depending upon the importance of the character. If I'm using a particular nationality as a base, I check those names. I don't always advertise. The few names that appear in THE TWELVE are eastern European for the sout...herners and Greek for the others. In HIGH RAGE, I used Turkish names for the mountain people, Latinate for others and Gaelic for still others. Short of inventing a language, it provides a degree of consistency in names. When I'm casting a wider net, I like going to phone books, which have yielded some great stuff. And sometimes I just like names that sound good.
Aaron Lehman
I use names that suit the culture I'm writing about. Raymond is a common local Aboriginal first name so that is the name of the main character in Mystery. No last names. They could be names of former students!
Eileen Schuh
Thanks for your comments.
I like to choose short names for my main characters as I have to type them so often! lol If I do choose a long name, the character quickly gets a short nickname! In my BackTracker series, the heroine Katrina is called "girl" by the other main character, Shrug. ( Shrug thinks he calls her 'girl' to belittle her....little does he know about that 'typing' thing of mine)
Jackie Fairbrother Robinson likes this..
Naming my characters is one of my favorite thingx to do!!!
I will keep this in mind when we decide to have a second child and can't agree on names lol