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Sharon
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Jan 13, 2016 11:34AM
What time period are we looking at? And male or female?
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Human female goodie - Rebecca (my grandmother - never met her as she died before I was born but apparently she was a saint and since she is possibly the only "saint" in the entire history of the family, I tend to hold her in high regard!)Human female baddy - Astrid (sounds harsh!) or Dora (if you want to defy convention - Dora always sounds like a sweet old dear to me but does she have a dark side!)
Human male - Nathan, Patrick, William, Henry, Samuel (depending on the age and character and for no other reason than they are good, solid, down to earth names) or if you're creating diverse characters, how about Kostas, Shahid, Akim, Raoul
Human male baddy - how about Julian - sorry to those with that name but it always seems a bit creepy and sly to me! I wonder if I ever knew anyone called Julian and they refused to lend me their pencil? Hmmm...
Not human - why not try the Terry Pratchett route and have non-human names that are the same or derivatives of human names?
Have you given this much thought? LolI don't think my second book is long enough to include all these. Haha
You need to read the first book to get the feel of the character names. It's quite varied. They range from Jake and Katherine, to Elias and Anya. There I've sold it to you sharon.
#cheekybookplug
Gonna name a character. She's a kinda cannibal/tribal leader. Still a bit floating around in my head at the moment. She will look like the blond actress in Vikings. I will call her Karaa.
Phil, I like names that are unusual or not often used.
Male:
Garrett, Kumai, Anders, Anton, Rand, Trent, Nico, Terrance ("Rance" for short), Cort, Felix, Grant, Gage, Symon, Hyde, Orin, Brant, Cooper
Female:
Jonella ("Nella" for short); Teaka, Nadia, Maara, Andra, Aleece, Helena, Asha, Lark, Kenna, Rinda, Delia, Josten, Eden, Dara, Carly, Narinda, Wren, Fern, Laila, Lolly
Unisex:
Reece, Riley, Alex, Dane, Cullen, Quinn, Voss, Reid, Aiden, Aaron/Erin, Kona
Non-gender specific creature or alien/alien race names:
*All totally made up by me.
Gorm, Glogg, Relik, Straek, Vrin, Frull, Draak, Plogg, Zreene, Trankk, Mordrim, Jhoft, Qualg, Xharn, Volk, Frenian, Lorft, Ulla, Owlla, Skrib, Zhorz, Praay, Quarn, Novv, Mirqua, Khanter, Cleep, Faadfa, Sarzen, Innek, Pawluup, Deizond, Crayn-Taa, Roq-Dahn, Viik-Si, Umb-Haa, Dind-Zhe, Shok-Doe, Azz-Traa
If you use one let me know, so I don't use it, myself, in my future writings. :)


