The Name Game: Naming your female characters http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712 missmoppet I find I take more creative license when working with female character names. I tend to get a little goofy actually. I'm a secret hippie and I love to name them after things found in nature. My firs NaNo novel featured a main character named Juniper. I wrote a previous book with a character named Bramble. I'm currenly trying something new and named a character Tess but I hate her name. It doesn't suit her and it doesn't have a romantic *zing* to it. You know about the zing right? Of course you do, you write romance! So tell me, how do you name your characters and tell me some of the best and worst names you've come across (snerk). Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:30:40 +0100 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1102309 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1102309 ELOAgent i name my female characters, after I name my male characters. See, if one name doesn't fit together, like, "Carter and Tara". I had a horrible name for my first CHARACTER EVER, I was obsessed with Lana, and made a mary sue named Lana Benton, and I just hated teh name. She was stereotypical and nothing fit. So I combine her and Jason, into two different characters and came out with two of my greatest created characters, "Carter HAMPTON AND DANA REEVES." My worst names ever, "Angel and Cassandra." Just terrible soppy floppy names. I think Tess is a lovely name. Try something like Tess Callahan. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:10:32 +0100 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1103458 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1103458 aliaswriter First, I never name my characters a name of someone that I know in person. This makes things hard because I know so many people. I also don't reuse names. But there are millions of names out there, how can this be so hard?? Second, I try to pick names that would go well with their personalities. My best names were Alexia (Lexie) and Sicily. Alexia is the FMC of a romantic comedy, where she accidentally marries her best friend because they got carried away with a bet. Sicily is from a dramatic romance that's actually more like a soap opera. It centers around 3 couples, who all end up having affairs with each other, with kind of a Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Separation thing going on. Sicily is the conniving, manipulative biatch of the story. Rich and spoiled, and unfortunately, also very beautiful. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:25:39 +0100 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1105076 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1105076 missmoppet Oh, I like Dana Reeves! That's a great name. It has presence you know? I might steal that last name.... Callahan... Originally when I wrote the book as a NaNo, it was based on a dream I had where I met a guy named Flux Fluoxetine. Seriously. I work at a doctors office and fluoxetine is the generic version of prozac. I thought it was so funny, I wrote him into a book and then when I had to come up with Tess's name, I wanted hers to be goofy too, so I named her Tess Ann Turducken. Now I want her to be a more serious character and Turducken is... well it's just awful. Funny but awful. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:33:39 +0100 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1105080 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/romance/threads/49712?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1105080