Snowflake Challenge #11

[malenkayacherepakha]

 Challenge #11: Recommend a fannish or creative resource.

Popping in quickly before I return to birthday celebrations to do challenge #11. 

I really hate coming up with names for OCs/background characters in fics, and it's always one of the last things I do before publishing or submitting a fic. Right up until that stage my fic will be littered with XXX [auror /professor/character name] because I just cannot come up with names. 

Thank god for name generators is all I can say.

My favourites are this Victorian Name Generator and this Harry Potter Name Generator. I don't tend to the use whole name they come up with, instead I click through until I find a first name I like, then repeat until I find a surname that goes with the first name or that conveys a meaning etc. 

I know a lot of people struggle with names so I hope these help! 

Comments

[gracerene]

Oo, I've never heard of the HP name generator before!

[malenkayacherepakha]

Andithiel told me about it when she was betaing for me once and I've loved it ever since!

[lightofdaye]

Thats a really neat tool. I've done something similar with Wikipedia's random article button on occasion

[malenkayacherepakha]

That's a good idea too!

[enchanted_jae]

Where I work, I glean character names from names that cross my desk. Oh, not full names, of course, but if a last name strikes my fancy, I'll jot it down. First names aren't as difficult.

I like the idea of name generators, though. Had never heard of them!

[malenkayacherepakha]

Ooh that's a good idea, I'll have to keep an eye out for good names at work, I certainly see a bunch of different names all the time.

[walgesang]

Those name generators remind me of all the old name generators of long ago. :D Great picks!

Happy belated birthday, hope it was a great one! ♥

[malenkayacherepakha]

Thank you! I had a lovely birthday <3