My latest blog post has even more gender-neutral names!
This time, I have 194 androgynous names to choose from for your characters. I've divided them into 3 categories: English names, unique names, and nature-based names.
My top 3? Bellamy, Octavie, and Elm.
Check them out here: https://hnossproofreads.co.uk/194-androgynous-names-for-characters/
PS. A name is accidentally repeated in two categories. Can you spot it before I update the post next month?
Random thought of the day.
A character, probably male identifying, boxer.
Name: Alan, Ellan or Elaine Bogan.
It's a pun name because the German word for Elbow is Ellenbogen and what's not to use in a fist fight? Right your elbows.
It's like naming a boxing person Al Bow or someone with the hobby archery...
#CharacterCreation #Puns #Draft #Writing #Tropes #CharacterNames
What's in a name? Names are a powerful tool in a writer's toolbox—they can tell us a lot about a character and the world you're creating. In today's blog and podcast episode, we talk about literary names and where to find them.
http://jweberle.com/2024/11/13/confessions-of-a-name-obsessed-writer/
Writers, do you ever accidentally write a character's name from another book you're reading instead of the name of your own character?
It's a struggle when your brain gets crossed between stories!
something I have literally just learned, is that you don't need a fancy website to generate a random name for a character
- Duck Duck Go, generates a random name as the first result if you type into the search bar: random name generator, then if you want another, just hit return or the magnifying glass again.
#DuckDuckGo #writingCommunity #CharacterNames #writing #amwriting
The most important thing about the new Hunger Games movie is that the main character, Coriolanus, and his best friend, Sejanus, both have names that end in "anus"
Gonna be rolling up a new Anna - a Kul Tiran rogue.
Need opinions!
How do folks feel about these two names:
Readers: what are your fave spec fic character name(s) and why? Authors, how do you choose your character names?
#Reader #Readers #Discussion #WritersofMastodon #Writers #Authors #Writer #Author #Characters #Characternames
I wish the #pharma industry would quit using up all the really cool alien & #FantasyFiction names. It's very frustrating for #writers.
"Queen Loestrin's daughters included Princesses Avienne, Azurette, Yazmin, Apri, and Arienne."
"I am Captain Xeljanz, from the starship Rubelsis. We are heading to the moons of Mounjaro on the planet Zantac, in the Enzyplex Cluster."
#WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingLife #CharacterNames #WorldBuilding
I wonder if other cultures have a similar thing with names. Does Bollywood have favourite hero names?
John Wick, James Bond, Jack Reacher: Why do all action heroes have J names? https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/john-wick-james-bond-action-heroes-j-names.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
@Tony_Meredith Just stumbled across this article by Ronald Dunning on a Burgh-Darcy marriage, back in 1329: https://janeausteninvermont.blog/2013/03/13/what-jane-knew-a-1329-darcy-de-bourgh-marriage-in-jane-austens-family-tree/
Elizabeth #LadyofClare probably attended the first wedding of her husband's sister Joan de #Burgh at #Greencastle in 1312, but left Ireland in 1316 so would not have been at the second.
I think the #PrideAndPrejudice #CharacterNames allude to #UKpolitics in #JaneAusten's day, but a lot of #genealogical info was available to her: more at https://historians.social/@kawulf/109627062228137872
My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?
Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341
#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice
@Tony_Meredith Sheryl Craig & Janine Barchas have documented the political context & other #CharacterNames convincingly, but although the characters of #EdmundBurke & the fictitious #CatherineDeBourgh are discussed, & other #Whig names make political references clear, I have not seen the name discussed explicitly.
Modern readers may not realise that these are variant spellings? but there were Irish #Burgh & #Burke peers in Jane’s time, both using variants of the original Burgh arms.
@Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.
@Tony_Meredith Donald Greene noted that #JaneAusten used old English family names & also alluded to living characters. He explains that Sir #EgertonBrydges thought his name had evolved from Burgh, that he was expanding 'Collins's Peerage' (9 vols in his 1812 edition), & that his pretensions irritated Jane. Independent readers might not connect the name Bourgh with Brydges, but the man himself would. So would the Austen family, given some Brydges ancestry. 🧵
