A to Z Challenge: A

A is for Albert, Anastasia, Andriana, and Andrew. Actually this post is about names. Several members of my extended family share names or at least the first letter of their names. At times this can be very confusing. This got me to thinking about naming characters. One thing I have learned is to be careful when choosing names for your characters and ensuring you don’t have too many if any repeat letters. This can be a difficult task when you have a lot of characters. In one of my books I also had characters who morphed into other characters and by so doing had to embrace a new name.

When I first named my characters, I thought I was being smart by taking known names and spelling them backwards. That lasted until my pages were out for their first critique and one of the critiquers figured it out. So once my secret was out I had to change strategies.

So the second thing I consider when naming characters is what the name means and how does it fit with a characters personality or his role in the story as well as the nationality of the character. Not that the story is set in any particular country, but the country I was modeling my settings in needed to match the character names. An example: I needed an German name for the king that meant something along the lines God will establish: Joachim, who was the father of one of the chosen ones. Brandan, Joachim’s twin brother and also father to one of the chosen ones; his name means prince. Of those original names only one remains: Princess Enitsirch, Enit for short. For some reason no one picked up on the fact that it was my name backwards. I like to think she is my alter ego.
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Deciding names for countries and cities goes by the same rules. I try to pick a city that almost no one will recognize in the country that is being used as a model. The difficult came in naming the countries. For those I had to get creative and make something up. That’s when all the rules went out the window and I’m not sure how I came up with the country or the world names.

That’s just a little about how I come up with names.

7 thoughts on “A to Z Challenge: A

  1. Wow! Yesterday we went for the storytelling workshop for my kid. The story was of Crawford the Crow. This name would have been kept as it looks similar to Crow. Craw-Crow for the kids to remember may be. Looking forward for your posts.

  2. Well you can add 3 of my granddaughter’s to your list of A’s! I have an Achelle, Allison and Alexandra! I like the way you chose the names.

  3. Love this! I know people who pick names out of a baby name book while others just like a name they hear on the street. Always fascinating to me how authors come up with names for their characters. Visiting from UBC

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