06-11-2004, 06:27 PM
Hi,
No name ideas, but a few on getting a name.
You need to "know" your character. Where is he from? What kind of a language do they speak there? Is it a guttural language, is it more musical, does it have many vowels (like the Romance languages) or few (like Arabic and Hawaiian). Are names in that language mostly descriptive or are they just "arbitrary" sounds.
No need to make a big production of it, although that can get to be fun. But a minute or so thinking like that, and your character will often just "tell" you his name.
Good luck,
--Pete
No name ideas, but a few on getting a name.
You need to "know" your character. Where is he from? What kind of a language do they speak there? Is it a guttural language, is it more musical, does it have many vowels (like the Romance languages) or few (like Arabic and Hawaiian). Are names in that language mostly descriptive or are they just "arbitrary" sounds.
No need to make a big production of it, although that can get to be fun. But a minute or so thinking like that, and your character will often just "tell" you his name.
Good luck,
--Pete
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