EVERYTHING needs a name.
Even a stone has a name, stone is a name, down to the root, noun is a kind of name. It is something to call, it give something identity. Even something is a kind of name.
As someone that likes fantasy and original, I chose the difficult path of not using common names but to create names.
How about you?
Oh, and I need more names for my current Nano story. Need to collect a few Anthroponymy, Toponymy now so when I need it I can just choose from the pool~
Any suggestion is welcome~ it will be used or modified or inspired... somehow~
I usually use baby name sites of behindthename.com to find names with meanings that are relevant to the story.
For example, the main character in the novel I'm currently writing is named Teagan, which comes from an older word that means poet, which fits because she is a literature major, and a "Bard" (this has a very specific meaning in the story).
Sometimes I just try to come up with a name that has the kind of feel I want to the story. For example, Sally, who is one of Teagan's roommates, who is very 'normal' and... well, boring isn't quite the right word, but it gives the right idea.
My character that I'm currently writing is named Tawney, which is something that plays into things later in the story. His mother's name is Robyn who is dead and his father has a large tattoo on his back of an American robin and a small sparrow in flight. His Robyn and Tawney birds.
I try to have meaning behind the names I choose. Sometimes there is no meaning but it's a name that sounds nice. And sometimes it's a name out of desperation. My monster character is half bear half hawk and his name is... BearHawk. I am all sorts of creative XD
