Screenplay and Novel Basics - Naming Your Characters - Part One

The names you give your characters can and will influence how your audience and/or readers feel about those characters. Names can also serve to keep characters identifiable as individuals and not to be confused with other players in your story (one mistake of new writers is to have all characters seem very much the same). Picking that exactly perfect name for a "person" that you have created is not always an easy task. Here are some "character naming" links to help you along that way...

December Fifth Creations - offers baby-naming and character-naming software for parents and writers

Name Locator General Search Engine

Biblical Baby Names

Women of the Bible

Men of the Bible

Names of Gangs and Biker Gang Individual Nicknames

"Nickname" from Wikipedia

Russian names with their nicknames

18th and 19th Century American Nicknames

Common Nicknames in English

Celebrity Nicknames

Common Nicknames & Their Given Name Equivalents

Glossary of Last Name Meanings and Origins

Given Name Index

Last Name Meanings - Find the ethnic origin and meaning of last names.Surname dictionary and genealogy helps include names of Irish, German, English, French, Italian, and Jewish descent.

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