Character Names

[audal]

Tippy Grove sounds like Tipper Gore's ostracized slutty cousin.

[Abigail]

What happened aud, you lose your socks on a bet???

[gypsygurl]

lost his head?

[joanjunkmail]

Tippy Grove sounds like Tipper Gore's ostracized slutty cousin.

LMAO!  i see you're handling the agony of defeat like the witty writer you are....

[audal]

LMAO!  i see you're handling the agony of defeat like the witty writer you are....

And I'm still hopeful!  To quote Elkette quoting Jim Carrey's Dumb-And-Dumber character: "So you're saying there's a chance!"

Also, I gotta figure winning in '04 has taken a lotta the gloom out of this current scenario.  We're not cursed anymore.  We won one in my lifetime.  That was the hope for all Sox fans for 86 years... so who am I to complain today?

[DaveKuzminski]

For a fantasy/science fiction series, I came up with several naming methods. One uses the names of cancers for the villains. Yes, it's a giveaway for the well known cancers, but there are names similar to those that are not cancers so that permitted me to indulge in some red herrings.

Another method involved taking common names and using them spelled backwards as was suggested by another writer near the beginning of this topic.

A third method consisted of dropping a letter from a common name. Changing a letter in a common name also worked with this method and by itself to produce unique names.

A fourth method used attributing last names for the only culture with last names to have those designate the house they lived in. That served to portray more accurately the oppression they were living under because it served as a way of tracking the citizens.

Then there was yet one more which consisted of creating a name using a forced acronym of a phrase. In fact, one name was used to name a beast and then later a character who shared some visual characteristics with that beast. Essentially, the beast was "vicious and aggressive" which became vanda. Because the beast had white fur, the character with white hair was named Vanda by her parents. It was almost a perfect fit for her behavior especially since she was both a protagonist and antagonist. This was the method I used least.

There were other naming methods used as well, but most were limited to specific cultures and that served to help portray the cultural conflicts and differences somewhat better within the overall story.