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You can call me Deadly Whispers

by JM

I mentioned different kinds of generators in the previous post, and I’d like to just touch on name generators. I personally don’t go much for the name generators for anything other than occasional amusment. (Deadly Whispers is my assassin name.)

Picking that just right character name can be a real struggle because names can convey personality as well as giving the reader a loose image of what the character looks like. Think of the name Marcus for a little bit. Get a picture of him in your head… Now think of Lou. Not the same people at all, are they?

So instead of name generators, I go with baby name sites so I can at least get an idea of what I’m looking for.

My two recommendations are:

Baby Names World which gives you different search options, as well as an advanced search which I often use.

and

Parenthood.com which is a bit of a simpler setup where you can just plug in a name meaning. I like to use this a lot of times because the meaning of a name can sometimes be just as important as the name itself.

If you have any name sites you like, please let me know because I’m always looking for something that will work just a little better than the services I use now.


Posted in General, Writing Sites on October 29th, 2006

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2 Responses to “You can call me Deadly Whispers”

  1. Elisa Says:
    October 29th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    I gave in and bout a New Age Baby Name Book. Good for alien names. Thanks for the links. Perhaps I will actually find time to do more than blog again soon.

  2. Jaime Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 11:37 pm

    I had about four baby name books as well as a few others, but I moved and now I don’t have them. Thank goodness for the internet!

    Time to do more than blogging? What do you mean? Hehe.

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