Coming up with a name for a character in your story is like choosing a name for your child… only harder.
When you come up with a name for your kid, they don’t have a personality yet. No matter what name you pick, they’ll “grow into” it.
However, characters in stories already have personalities, and having the wrong name for your character can cause a mess. For example, writing a story about a modern-day high school where kids are named “Pigwilliam” and “Starex” isn’t going to fly, and neither will having an evil villain whose name is “Flower” (unless you’re trying to be funny).
So how do you create the perfect name? I’m glad you asked!
During the last stream, we went over how to come up with names for the characters in your stories, going over the three levels of names and using sounds/meaning to get the most ooph out of them
We go over it here and come up with names
for characters suggested by chat!
After that chat voted that we write this prompt created by w3woody: For as long as you can remember you received a regular paycheck in the mail for doing nothing. One day, out of curiosity, you go to the building on the return address to find out why. There you’re greeted by an intimidating man who says “you just couldn’t leave well enough alone, could you.”
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you. We stream on Twitch every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 7:30pm-11:30pm (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
And you missed the stream, you can still watch Rubbish to Published, the writing exercises, or the writing prompts on YouTube, or watch the full stream reruns.
Hope to see you next time, friend!
Featured image: Pakutaso