Comments on: Which Comes First–the Character or the Name? http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/ Thu, 17 May 2012 03:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MENU and RANSOME Questions Answered « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-12676 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:38:20 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-12676 [...] posts I’ve written on naming characters: Creating Credible Characters–What’s in a Name? Which Comes First–the Character or the Name? By Any Other Name . . [...]

]]> By: Creating Credible Characters–What’s in a Name? « Kaye Dacus’s Write Place, Write Time http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-1973 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:32:33 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-1973 [...] a couple of other posts about naming characters which explain my approach to naming characters: Which Comes First–the Character or the Name? By Any Other Name . [...]

]]> By: Rachel http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-294 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:37:24 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-294 I have one poor character who’s on his third name. He’s a main character too! Maybe this current one will do the trick.

Usually the character’s whole name just plops right down in my head. Very rarely do I have to search, unless I’m after an ethnic name.

]]> By: Erica http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-288 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:17:02 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-288 Names are so hard…would you believe I chose the name Kirk for a last name of one of the characters in Drums because I wanted to play off the Scottish name for Church? Then, it hit me…I can’t use that name with the first name I’d chosen! LOLOLOL I thunked my palm on my forehead and changed the last name to Bonner because James Kirk wouldn’t do at all!

And the Marsha, Marcia, Martia cracked me up! LOL

]]> By: Amy Jane http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-286 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:01:07 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-286 Ooops! I got behind and didn’t move with you right away ;o)

I’m totally with you on needing the names nailed down. The funny thing for me is sometimes I’ll work, research and agonize over a name, and other times I’ll just *pop* have it.

That read-aloud test is great though. I posted a test excerpt on my blog a while back, and that was the (one) feedback I got– the names were awkward for reading aloud.

My fave character name I’ve made up is Sherizalli (Not in my current novel). It was patterned after Scheherezade, but came out differently when my 13-y-o self was trying to tell the AR frame-story to my little bro. I hung on to it, and now she’s a really neat character in a diff novel ;o)

]]> By: GeorgianaD http://kayedacus.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-285 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:31:44 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/which-comes-first-the-character-or-the-name/#comment-285 I always have the name for my heroine before the character. (Lucy Flowers, Molly Beane) But as for secondary characters, I’M TERRIBLE! They go through names like three or four times before I settle on something.

Thanks for the trip through TV LAND!!! Andy and Opie, LOLOL!

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