Picking A Fitting Name For Your Characters

Today I am guest posting over at the amazing blog of Marina Scott where I talk about naming characters and how it is something that needs our complete attention.

While I am not someone who readily believes in things like Astrology and the like, I have to admit that there are certainly a lot of indicators that a person's name shapes their character.

I remember the discussions and the baby name books my wife and I went through when we were expecting our first and second child. The third we had kind of already set because we both wanted a girl and had the name saved up for a while already, but the principle remained.

As writers, out characters are our children, and the name for them is even more important before for the most part our characters are adults, or at least at the age where their 'real life' character would have already been shaped, and so the name needs to be even more thought out.

I think I spent more time choosing the names of my characters than I did writing up and creating their Biographies.

Anyway, enough of my waffle on here. Please all come and join me for my waffle over .