The name that no human research can discover...
The naming of cats characters is a difficult matter...
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason I write fanfiction (and part of why most of my original stories tend to die early on) has nothing to do with pre-existing worlds, characters or ideas. Maybe it's names.
Because every time I try to come up with a name for something or someone, I end up trawling through wikipedia articles looking for something that has the correct balence of being interesting and not-too-weird.
I'm working on something right now, and I think I came up with a name for the protagonist, but it took hours of searching and pondering, and I'm still convinced it's awful. It's just... not as bad as the other names I came up with.
Surely there's a better method.
And so I ask :
How do you decide on names for characters? Especially main characters?
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason I write fanfiction (and part of why most of my original stories tend to die early on) has nothing to do with pre-existing worlds, characters or ideas. Maybe it's names.
Because every time I try to come up with a name for something or someone, I end up trawling through wikipedia articles looking for something that has the correct balence of being interesting and not-too-weird.
I'm working on something right now, and I think I came up with a name for the protagonist, but it took hours of searching and pondering, and I'm still convinced it's awful. It's just... not as bad as the other names I came up with.
Surely there's a better method.
And so I ask :
How do you decide on names for characters? Especially main characters?