How do you name your characters?
Hi, I'm Sarah Weldon, welcome to my blog on which this week I try to shed a little light on how I choose my characters names.
It's a question I am often asked. Sometimes they come to me in dreams and some seemingly from nowhere.
Choosing a name is an important part of building a mental image of your character. I use a special Numerology app to generate a profile of my character by typing in a name and a date of birth.
What's in a name? More than you think! For example take my character Charlene Hamilton-Davis. Currently married to Troy Hamilton-Davis, who, having moved from Atlanta to Brittany embarks on an affair with the solicitor who dealt with the purchase of her house, Antoine Monroe.
She has a life path of 8, here is an extract from her life path:-
Charlene you thrive best in a job that has a less predictable routine and a tall social ladder to climb. You take great pride in your physical appearance and often appear very attractive to the opposite sex, which is only a hazard if the romance happens on the job. You have excellent taste in clothes and know how to gain the focus of an entire room of strangers.
You tend to be connected more to material wealth than spiritual wealth and lust after more than just sex. Many of you marry for social reasons or because the individual seems right for the position of spouse. Your family unit often conceals a lot of secrets as when these relationships do not work out you cannot bear the humiliation of seperation or divorce.
For those like Darkangel and Moderator Irene who proof read for me and those of you that have read the 5 chapters in my writing you will notice that this describes the character of Charlene to a 'T'!
How does numerology work?
Simple mathematics-For instance your life path is calculated in four steps.
1. Add up the digits in your month of birth (if more than one digit)
2. Add up the digits in your day of birth. (if more than one digit)
3. Add up the digits in your year of birth.
4. Add up the answers from 1,2 and 3.
In Charlene's case I gave her the birthdate of 1st June 1972 - which would be 1 + 6 being day and month giving a total of 7 followed by 1 + 9 + 7 + 2 = giving us a total of 19 and by adding the 1 + 9 = giving 10 and adding 1 + 0 gives us 1 + 1 + 6 = 8 - 8 being the life path number!
You can of course do it the easy way and let the experts do your reading for you, which is what I did being hopeless at mathematics!
I have a life path of 9 and us nines are destined to be in the limelight as actors,writers or artists!
A reading spans a period of 9 years and is not expensive and when you consider all the bonus items they throw in like the generator the $45 it cost is an absolute bargain.
If you want to know more about Numerology visit numerology.com and get your very own mini reading for free!
Do you connect with your characters? Do they come to life in your imagination and develop their own personalities? Mine do!
If your characters are wooden it will show in your writing. Open your mind and become the character you are writing.
Act out the scene in your head, especially the hard to write scenes, you know the ones. The close encounters of the sexual kind! But a word of warning, just make sure you're alone!
Ciaou. Until next week this is Sarah R Weldon signing off.
Next week, Inspiration, where do you find yours?
It's a question I am often asked. Sometimes they come to me in dreams and some seemingly from nowhere.
Choosing a name is an important part of building a mental image of your character. I use a special Numerology app to generate a profile of my character by typing in a name and a date of birth.
What's in a name? More than you think! For example take my character Charlene Hamilton-Davis. Currently married to Troy Hamilton-Davis, who, having moved from Atlanta to Brittany embarks on an affair with the solicitor who dealt with the purchase of her house, Antoine Monroe.
She has a life path of 8, here is an extract from her life path:-
Charlene you thrive best in a job that has a less predictable routine and a tall social ladder to climb. You take great pride in your physical appearance and often appear very attractive to the opposite sex, which is only a hazard if the romance happens on the job. You have excellent taste in clothes and know how to gain the focus of an entire room of strangers.
You tend to be connected more to material wealth than spiritual wealth and lust after more than just sex. Many of you marry for social reasons or because the individual seems right for the position of spouse. Your family unit often conceals a lot of secrets as when these relationships do not work out you cannot bear the humiliation of seperation or divorce.
For those like Darkangel and Moderator Irene who proof read for me and those of you that have read the 5 chapters in my writing you will notice that this describes the character of Charlene to a 'T'!
How does numerology work?
Simple mathematics-For instance your life path is calculated in four steps.
1. Add up the digits in your month of birth (if more than one digit)
2. Add up the digits in your day of birth. (if more than one digit)
3. Add up the digits in your year of birth.
4. Add up the answers from 1,2 and 3.
In Charlene's case I gave her the birthdate of 1st June 1972 - which would be 1 + 6 being day and month giving a total of 7 followed by 1 + 9 + 7 + 2 = giving us a total of 19 and by adding the 1 + 9 = giving 10 and adding 1 + 0 gives us 1 + 1 + 6 = 8 - 8 being the life path number!
You can of course do it the easy way and let the experts do your reading for you, which is what I did being hopeless at mathematics!
I have a life path of 9 and us nines are destined to be in the limelight as actors,writers or artists!
A reading spans a period of 9 years and is not expensive and when you consider all the bonus items they throw in like the generator the $45 it cost is an absolute bargain.
If you want to know more about Numerology visit numerology.com and get your very own mini reading for free!
Do you connect with your characters? Do they come to life in your imagination and develop their own personalities? Mine do!
If your characters are wooden it will show in your writing. Open your mind and become the character you are writing.
Act out the scene in your head, especially the hard to write scenes, you know the ones. The close encounters of the sexual kind! But a word of warning, just make sure you're alone!
Ciaou. Until next week this is Sarah R Weldon signing off.
Next week, Inspiration, where do you find yours?
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