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Aug 30, 2006 at 1:19am
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names
by A Non-Existent User
I can't remember if we've already covered this, and I can't find any similar posts, but I'm getting the feeling like we did. Ah, well, I'll just ask anyways.

How does everyone go about naming their characters? To me that's always the hardest part about creating a character. I have the idea that is the character in my mind, but I can rarely attach a name to it. It's often very frustrating, and that's probably the thing I get most hung up on. Part of it is also that I tend to be a names perfectionist, so if a name isn't just right I tend to outright reject it. Maybe I should keep a book of names when I write, alongside my dictionary.

Come to think of it, I do the same thing with characters in other people's works, especially if the names are hard to pronounce. I just learn the name well enough to recognise the look of it, and then that collection of symbols translates into that character without it having any actual sound associated with it. Does anyone else do that?
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names · 08-30-06 1:19am
by A Non-Existent User
Re: names · 08-30-06 1:43am
by Silence
Re: Re: names · 08-30-06 2:25am
by Lori Basiewicz
Re: Re: Re: names · 08-31-06 1:27pm
by dragonfly~guess who's back?
Re: Re: Re: names · 09-03-06 1:27am
by A Non-Existent User
Re: Re: Re: Re: names · 09-06-06 12:46am
by A Non-Existent User
Re: Re: names · 09-06-06 1:01am
by Holly Jahangiri
Re: Re: Re: names · 09-06-06 11:30pm
by A Non-Existent User
Re: names · 09-08-06 2:49am
by Liam Jackson
Re: names · 09-12-06 2:21pm
by A Non-Existent User

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