What's In A Name?
I'm working on a fantasy adventure story right now and I'm finding out how difficult it is to create the right names for my characters. The challenge is finding names to both match the personality of the character and make the names interesting to my readers. Imagination certainly comes into play but so does a good Thesaurus. I've been creating names from various words and from the names of people I meet every day. Fortunately, living in Los Angeles, I meet a lot of people with very unusual... Sign in to see full entry.