Distinctive character names abound in literature, audio-visual media, and music. From Wil E. Coyote to Ebenezer Scrooge, Popeye to Sherlock Holmes, Dirk Diggler to HotLipsHoulihan, writers worldwide have provided us with character monikers that will be remembered for centuries. This post provides ...
Emma created the second ever name generator on the internet in 1999 after a friend emailed her a link to a tool for making disco names. She found it so amusing that she taught herself how to code to make her own, and the first fairy name generator was born! She followed up a couple ...
Coming up with a great name for your characters is one of the hardest tasks you’ll ever complete as a fiction writer. The weight of that responsibility can often paralyze writers. On one hand, you don’t want to saddle your characters with ordinary, pedestrian names. The right name can ...
This is an area where you can let your imagination go wild. In fantasy and science/fiction stories, writers usually fill their worlds with unusual items and abstract concepts. Sometimes the objects are integral to the story, for example, Holcrux (Harry Potter), Lightsaber (Star Wars), etc. ...
Characterization describes the way a writer or actor creates or implies a character's personality, their inner life and psyche. Two main ways to reveal your characters are direct characterization and indirect characterization. What are these character creation techniques? Read on for examples of......
a pop star or Sandra from HR — whoever they are, they have love in their lives and it makes them more driven and devoted than you can imagine. The downside of this passion is that they’re often willing to sacrifice everything for the ones they love — which can be a one-way ticke...
Most people have trouble coming up with cool character names,which is why some kids end up with names likeVagena(true story) orGaylord(Gaylord Focker is truly the worst name ever). But for fiction writers it’s harder because you have to come up with a dozen or so character names for ...
For some writers, character motivation comes easy — their instinct is to think about how their characters would behave in a certain situation (and not how they think theyshouldbehave). If you find yourself struggling to bring your characters to life in any given scene, try usingthesecharacter...
(The Bone Collector). He’s a perfect partner for writers, too: his chameleonic skill for making written dialogue feel unscripted enables him to seem like someone you’d meet out in the real world. (With 150 film and TV credits under his belt, he’s probably played someone you actually...
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