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Lisa McMann:
I love your books! I am writing too, and am having trouble coming up with cool, original names for places, things, and characters in my writing. Any advice? Thanks!
Lisa McMann
I get a lot of character names by googling "names from xx location" if I need a specific ethnicity or "cool baby names" or things like that. And if I see interesting words I put them in my notes app on my phone so I can remember them the next time I need one.
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Lisa McMann:
How do you come up with names? Whenever I try to, they always end up wrong and I have to rewrite the entire story so that the names are right.
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