Sticky: The Naming Guidebook

[Fat Ryan Reynolds]

~Sapphire Rose Wolf~

I need help with a character name.

I need a name for a charac ter without it being so obvious that he's talented in music. My problem is that I keep wanting to name him Mozart. I need something a lot less cliche. Right now the last name doesn't matter much, but if t helps anyone I'm just going to go with something common but not cliche, something like Dillard or Carver.

Dillard and Carver are good, however if you give him a background or bloodline that makes Mozart a viable option I don't see why not. Are his parents or their parents from Austria? The sad thing is that a lot of people don't recognize the names of the old composers anymore, so you could probably sneak in something blatant and your readers would just think you were being terribly clever.

[Fat Ryan Reynolds]

Panumbra

AngelicWings24

OMG, I really need help getting an effective title for one of my short stories. Here's the basic outline:

It's just about the 17/18th century in England. A small girl needs to get food for her dad. She goes to drastic measures and takes a blunderbuss to try and rob a store for food, etc. She gets nervous when a smaller boy starts to cry. She feels bad and tries to comfort him, but ends up breaking down and telling her story about how her father's sick and dying and she has no other family. She's caught. Brought away. She cries to her father and apologizes for 'failing'. People from the store go to her small hut and brings food and medicine, etc. She laughs and smiles. The end.

It's supposed to be Christmas Eve, so it's snowing. The girl's name is Emilie Rae Valentine and her family's really poor.

So, help? And sorry about the bad grammar/explanation. I'm not usually bad at it. xP

Blunderbuss...reminds me of Fable II.
Titles:
"Gift of Giving"
"Spirit of Christmas"
"The Price of Love"
"Breaking Through to Love"
And that's all that I have right now.

This summer...

A dying father...

A desperate child...

A blunderbuss.

From visionary director Werner Herzog comes this tale of family, and doing what you must in order to help the ones you love.

Time Warner presents: "Seven Pou-- er, I mean, Pure White".

[~Sapphire Rose Wolf~]

Fat Ryan Reynolds

~Sapphire Rose Wolf~

I need help with a character name.

I need a name for a character without it being so obvious that he's talented in music. My problem is that I keep wanting to name him Mozart. I need something a lot less cliche. Right now the last name doesn't matter much, but if t helps anyone I'm just going to go with something common but not cliche, something like Dillard or Carver.

Dillard and Carver are good, however if you give him a background or bloodline that makes Mozart a viable option I don't see why not. Are his parents or their parents from Austria? The sad thing is that a lot of people don't recognize the names of the old composers anymore, so you could probably sneak in something blatant and your readers would just think you were being terribly clever.

Actually I wanted his name to NOT be Mozart. It can be a nickname he earns in school but no his real name. His dad's just kind of there, his mom was the important character in his background. She loved music, and was always listening to classical music while pregnant with him. Shortly after having him she was diagnosed with cancer, and no treatment was working for her. The reason he's good at music is beause music was the one thing that always made her happy. I quess if Mozart was her favorite classical composer it would kind of make sense but I'm used to being told that names shouldn't be tied to what they're good at and such.

[Kakasholo]

thank you, Dev! xp

[Yellow Xani]

I just finished writing the draft of my one books (its coming in two parts), and I've called it Nostalgia. I knew from the beginning it was the right name for the book as the whole book it about wishing things would go back to how they were in the past before the great evil consumed the world. The second book is actually set BEFORE the first book and I'm quite a way through writing it and I really cannot decide between two titles.

The second book is about dreading how things will be in the future, and I came up with the two options of Apprehension and Foreboding. They both resonate feelings of dread about the future, but they have completely different overall feelings. One of my friends, said that Foreboding is a better title as it screams 'doom' and 'dread', but my other friend said that if she saw something with 'Foreboding' on the cover she'd instantly think of some dark, sparkly vampire flick like Twilight, an that Apprehension is less done and thus; would stand out better because it isn't a cliché.

Any help on what the two words make you feel?

[Childofthegods]

I am working on a story involving twins who are daughters of a great goddesss

is it ok to make 1 of the girls love intrest the brother to a god? he isnt personally a god he is a form of vampire. he was sold by the god (before he was a god) to the vampires called the planets. his name is saturn (he was renamed by the planets and had no name before his life with them?

also what am i to call the opposite of these planets they r more like the vampires we know today except they are stronger and mega monsterous. the were stripped of thier individual names thereby taking all thier planetery powers

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!

[EmotionallyInconsistent]

Yeees! I finally have it! I'm going to give my three girls the names I intended by utilizing a trick my great aunt used. Wolfe, Snow and Wood aren't too unique as surnames so they stay surnames but the original first names I wanted will be used as middle names while the boring names can be first names.

(Bland name) Zin Wolfe
(Bland name) Fauna Snow
(Bland name) Lilith Wood

The crisis of naming is over for me. blaugh

[Bolto The Mage]

I have given the main character of one of my stories a name I'm not too sure about.

I named him Gary Walton, because that just seems like an 'Average Joe' name, that if you saw it in a phone book, you wouldn't think twice about it. I want this character to be very overlooked by a lot of people, and the people who do notice him treat him like their personal puppet.

Although I'm not too sure if it would work...

[SonicsniperV4]

I need a name for a made-up town. I want it sound like a California city. Any suggestions?

[bailey-baby13]

this was really helpful, thanks alot !,(:

[maddiepiano88]

in my story theres 2 girls named Natily and Alex, and ummm yea thats all i got so far surprised