How I name my characters

If you’re anything like me, naming the characters in your stories can sometimes get a little challenging. I’ve been writing for a long time now and as the short stories and flash fictions rack up, things can get a little, well, repetitive. So here are a few tricks that I use to come up with an endless supply of individual character names.

1 – They name themselves

This is the ideal situation. Sometimes, the character just names themselves – like that perfect plot that just pops into your head ful...