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June 6 Question What's harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names?
June 6 Question What's harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names?
This one is easy. Book titles are harder. I’ll struggle for months at a time. Breakthrough was a no-brainer. But everything after that was a real struggle. In fact, I had to have a contest on my blog to help name Salem’s Daughters (then Murcat Manor) because I was shooting blanks for about a year.
Character Names This has always been easy. I come up with names by listening to who’s singing on the radio, authors of books laying around, or simply making them up.
Chase Manhattan came to me well after the rough and second draft were finished. Manhattan came first. It has the word ‘man. And ‘hat’. John Wayne wore a hat. Indiana Jones wore a hat. So did a lot of other tough guys.
And Chase, well, he was either chasing someone down or being chased by some really bad guys.
My neighbor was playing Jimi Hendrix and I used James and Hendrix for names of a couple security guards who incidentally were quickly killed.
It's that easy.
My neighbor was playing Jimi Hendrix and I used James and Hendrix for names of a couple security guards who incidentally were quickly killed.
It's that easy.
Question How the heck are you? Hope life is treating you well or if you are going through trials you have a support group like IWSG to help.
