Why don't you love me?

[tsaiko]

Why is it that some stories, the names for character just come to me and in other stories I spend an entire 2 hours just trying to come up with three names? It's so damn frustrating. And when I finally get three names nailed down, I decide I don't like one of the names and have to start over with that one. I use to keep a list of names that struck my fancy (still do... somewhere), but after awhile I started reusing names. That's all fine and dandy as long as I'm writing for me, but people notice when I have four different characters named Rioran.

I just wish these characters would stop being difficult and make with the porn already.

Comments

[flamebyrd]

For my last ss*bb fic I picked all the names for the characters by opening a baby names book at random pages. And then everyone told me they liked the character names. Heh.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Huh. I might have to dig up the baby name book I have. I have been using one of the several website I have bookmarked. I have to be careful which ones I look at though. My girlfriend always gives me looks when she sees me looking at baby name websites. XD

[flamebyrd]

Yeah, I also have a bunch of random name generators bookmarked. (I particularly like the fantasy ones, because I am useless with fantasy names.)

My baby names book is really snarky, so that can also be useful.