Names?

From the fuzzy grey of my brain I seem to have developed a need to think of an unusual name that I could, if I ever wrote a novel, use as a character.

This normally happens when I’m half asleep, it might be a continuing dream. And like a dream, I think of a name and then almost immediately forget it!

I don’t have a list, I didn’t think of writing names down. But I think each name is a little complicated, perhaps having several syllables. Is this normal? Is there a name for it? (like nominative determinism, where a person’s name relates to their job… A Mr Kitchenn as a cook for example?)

I am trying to think of names….

Buttercup Sylvester

Pamela Praline

Humphrey Othello?

Or maybe

Martia Stephinkos

Greg Carlos Carlisle?

I think I come up with better ones when I half asleep.

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9 thoughts on “Names?”

  1. Ahh, coming up with names. Not always an easy ask! Charles Dickens is worth looking into, he would use names like that. I think Edgar Allen Poe did as well in his prose. There are a lot of random name generators out there you could play around with, too.

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  3. You should have a special notebook just for characters until you’re convinced of their names. There are cultures that might use the profession as a guide, but if it’s not relevant in your own culture, no one will understand it. However, you could create a name that intuitively reveals something you want the reader to believe from the start.

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