I'm in the middle of the initial research and map creation for a fantasy I begin writting this Monday. I don't know if I can tell you much about him other than he lives in New Mexico, but is anglo, is, about 40 years old, fairly large, has lost his wife to a car accident and has just been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
I've got tons of characters, locations and I know how it's going to start and (almost) end but I can't come up with a name that staisfies me. Thanks for your help!
Name My Character, please!
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If he is Anglo and it has a more contemporary setting, please go for a good, solid commonly used first name like Bob (Rob, Robert) or Tom (Thomas), or John (Jon, Jonathon), or Bill (Will, William), or Dave (David), Eric (Erik), Alan (Allen), Mike( Michael), Dan (Daniel), Steve (Steven, Stephen), Jim (James), etc.
More unusual first names like Hunter or Stone or Rock always make me think of poorly written women's fiction.
More unusual first names like Hunter or Stone or Rock always make me think of poorly written women's fiction.
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I'm with Duchess - go for a classic name like James, which in my opinion makes him more immersible (people getting lost in the character). For color, you can have certain people call him by his last name or a nickname a nickname, like Jay, Jim, Jimmy, or Billy, or Mack or Buddy.
How about James MacClure?
James Lesson?
James Foley?
James Locke?
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How about James MacClure?
James Lesson?
James Foley?
James Locke?
DW
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Andrew James McAndrew, call him AJ.
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Odd, I know. It's actually my neighbor's name, but I really like it.CovenantJr wrote:Andrew McAndrew?Cail wrote:Andrew James McAndrew, call him AJ.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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I like Van Gregory-Tam really likes Robert Wallace-has a good ring to it-strenght: which is what this character will really need! 
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I liked a passage in Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City where the main character, Tanner Mirabel, was musing about his own name. He said he liked the contrast between his solid, salt-of-the-Earth first name and his delicate, aristocratic-sounding surname. I suspect those were the exact thoughts Reynolds had when he was naming him.
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I am fun--it's just that I've seen a history of a certian Pemberley gentleman admonising others in other forums to use emoticons to avoid misunderstandingsLore wrote:You're no fun
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