I'm enjoying the task of writing the bones of a new story so much that I don't want to stop to figure out names. I have my main characters' names but whenever I come across a new character I think 'Don't stop - work out the name later' and now I've got quite a few to sort out! Although my countries are fictitious, I do like to give them names appropriate to their 'feel', (e.g. Anglo-Saxon) and the inhabitants names follow suite. It means spending time working around a few, mixing and matching beginnings and endings, or, occasionally, searching for names with appropriate meanings.
Published on October 05, 2010 03:31