Thursday, October 27, 2005

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.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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