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Re: Anthony-esque (was Re: Sigh... boredom)
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:35:03 GMT
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> > As for my names, I'll be frank, or maybe I'll be Pawel just this once, I • know
> > I'll be Joel sometime next month. I come up with most of my names by just
> > stamping my fingers on the keyboard and pulling out letter combonations • that
> > look or sound good and build on them. Though I do try not to have too • many
> > characters with their names starting or ending the same. But when you • have as
> > many characters as I do, that gets hard.
>
> One great source for names, is get a baby name book.... they're great...
> most have a meaning for the name and origin too.... : )
> Being that Myself and Andrea... my wife... are very into early medieval
> stuff, we have aquired alot of great books, just picked up a book "
> Arthurian, Myth & Legend - An A-Z of People and Places" Which is the
> GREATEST.... it has medieval names of people and places, and a detailed
> history and description on who what why and when.... Plus we just picked up
> a 5 book series of Witches & Witchcraft, Goddesses, Celt's, Merlin and • Myths
> & Magic... or then there's numerous websites....
That Arthurian book sounds good. I think I've seen it before, and now
I might have to add that to my collection of medieval and renaissance
books. I've been meaning to get a baby-name book too, since I'm
always getting strapped for character names. I tend to re-use a lot
of names too..
One little trick I tried is to watch closely when they run the credits at
the end of a TV show, and look at all the last-names. Sometimes you
get some interesting ideas. Sometimes you'll see something that
sounds interesting, and you can make a slight spelling change to
make it more interesting. At least one of my current mage-names
came up that way.
--
Bones
= http://www.necrobones.com/ = NecroBones Enterprises
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