Heroine
I'm working on something and am having the hardest time naming my main character. I just feel like I'm putting her in a box by giving her a name. I feel like every name carries too much with it. That she'll be burdened by a name. I've already named all the other characters, too, which isn't helping matters.
How do you name your characters?
Comments
Usually they come pre-packaged with a name, in my mind.
Or they have no name.
Posted by: Amanda Mae | February 23, 2007 3:35 PM
I hear Emily's a good name for a heroine. On the other hand, don't some writers just give a letter for a name? Or like Sex and the City, just have Mr. Big? It's the new way to go. Actual names are so last century.
Posted by: Emily | February 23, 2007 6:26 PM
Well, if it was my story, the characters would have all sorts of names, always changing (remember the "horse of a different color" in the Emerald City of Oz?).
But you already knew that!
Makes you crazy, huh?
Posted by: Sally | February 23, 2007 6:34 PM
i have no imagination so all of my characters are me. and i came with a name.
Posted by: kat | February 24, 2007 8:16 AM