Ben Powell

@sage-g  Since SeekJustice commented, I might as well comment, too:

Your sister is AMAZING! WOW! If I ever get around to those illogical children’s books that I started when I was thirteen, I am SO asking her to illustrate them!

@daughteroftheking  @ingridrd  I love those names!!!!!

@rochellaine  *talking to self* She likes Adric…. SHE LIKES ADRIC!!!!!!!!! Sorry, Adric is a Dr Who character’s name, and you know how we Whovians are……..

@skredder Haha!  Do we realize what being writers does to us?  “She’s torn.  She has come to care for those she once saw as only nightmares of her past.”  We talk in “book blurb” language!  🙂

I found the same thing happening to me when I first started going to law school.  After a year, my speech changed drastically, and I started saying strang…[Read more]

@notawriter Cool.  What type of person do you think Jana Neader is, though?  Is it a hero or heroine, or a sidekick or mentor?  I think it could sound kind of forbidding and be a “dark lord” or something, but could also be sweet and sympathetic.  🙂

@dekreel Those are cool names!  I like Airow, Dae, and Adric a lot!  I was kind of thinking for t…[Read more]

…….That was weird……..

TAKE TWO! *claps clapperboard*

Thanks @rochellaine!  I might actually use some of those for my novella! (assuming I ever get back to it……)

Anyway, can I drop in some names, too?

Girls (I got these from a book, mostly)

• Airow
• Aine
• Altair
• Ashe
• Vekka
• Cleo
• Dae
• Dove
• Elke
• Fae
• Faune
• Ginger

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@aratrea  Yep, @rochellaine is right! Outside of the topic, before Rochellaine posted, it SAID I posted recently, but my post is gone!

Spam?! Hmmm, that makes sense, actually. It’s happened about three times, and all of those times, I remember that the posts were pretty long. This one was long, too.

If it helps, here is another place where it…[Read more]

@dekreel So that’s what happened! 🙂 I got a notification in my email that you replied to me but when I went to read it I couldn’t find the post!

@aratrea I know it happened to her on my topic Character Name Exchange.

@waterlily That’s great! Which ones do you like best?  I want to know if anyone has the same favorites as I do.

(I actually held back on my favorite of favorites.  I am going to try to use it in one of my own stories, because I love it so much.) 🙂

@gh24682468999

Heh. You tagged me.

Welp, writing short stories is actually really difficult for me. The only thing harder than writing a short story for me is coming up with a character’s name. XD

But I’ll give you what advice I can from the few successful times I’ve written or read short stories.

So, if you do have a big story world, don’t…[Read more]

@waterlily  This does sound like a neat concept! The only thing that doesn’t quite make sense to me is how the seawyrms could have her family crest marked on them? Am I just misunderstanding? Of course, when you go to write this you can definitely explain in better detail. XD

@aella Like what everyone else said, I’d say explain to him story structure in a logical way. Some good ones include Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Monomyth (ignore the movie outline stuff on the link attached) and Blake Snyder’s fifteen “beats” (again, ignoring the film stuff like opening and closing image).

Hero’s…[Read more]

@skredder I like it a lot!  It kind of reminds me of a Tony Curtis movie from the 1950s where he played a boy who was raised by peasants not knowing he was the son of a knight.  When he went to live in the castle learning to be a page and a squire he found his family’s crest and learned that his family was killed because his father had been t…[Read more]

Wow, that was a lot.

Anyway, I hope some people like some of these names and can put them to good use! 🙂

These are kind of weird names that I think can be used for bad guys, strange creatures, or sidekicks:

1. Grogalmon
2. Shmagojo
3. Hokedoda
4. Buddle
5. Budley Ebsle
6. Clomark
7. Dvonzig
8. Dirbojean

And lastly, here are a few that aren’t in any category.

1. Gorley
2. Allyjun
3. Juraine
4. Marthek
5. Jana Neader
6. Landke Gabis

Boys names!

1. Lurnaz
2. Nnesim
3. Glorald j’Eannor
4. Jeale Carain
5. Dylar
6. Loruss
7. Lorever
8. Jamalon
9. Javal
10. Kethram

Ok, here are my girls names!  I looked a couple of them up in case, and found that one or two had been used before, but very rarely, if at all.

1. Carill
2. Shirae
3. Lisilan Funespie
4. Kirlas
5. Tayice
6. Carean
7. Janyn Galler
8. Rochellyn Mars
9. Lizev
10. Lyhavia
11. Russlyn
12. Kethra

@itisastarrynight  Here you go! I hope you don’t mind manga 🙂