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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 22:19:51 GMT
Recreating this from scratch. I'm just going to use this as a general place, and instead, post any stories as separate threads. I did have the old one deleted because, as was probably pretty obvious, I promised a little more than I can deliver.
I'm hoping that, from this point forwards, I can do at least one part of whatever per week.
And, as always, for anything I write, any criticism or feedback of any kind is welcomed.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2015 20:33:37 GMT
Well, I've re-written the intro to Tempest(that story I was working on that I never got around to naming) twice already.... Oh boy....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2015 14:13:03 GMT
So I'm just going to completely copy/paste something I put on tumblr:
Alright, so that story I’ve been planning, but not writing… I figured I’d want to get some opinions on it, maybe. So, feel free to tell me what you think of what I’m currently planning with it.
Working title: Nexus
The basic idea is that it will follow four people from four different worlds. Each of them are connected by dreams they have of a Weaver(within the universe that all of my stories are set in, Weaver’s are sentient beings who create. To explain this, most worlds are created naturally(splits in timelines, etc.), but Weavers have the ability to create things. So uh… think The Banner Saga(even though I had this idea way before The Banner Saga, Banner Saga is a good frame of reference). In TBS, the world is a tapestry, and Mender’s can manipulate the threads of the tapestry. In my stories, the universe is kind of like that, and Weaver’s can manipulate, cut, or create new threads).
I’m unsure of how the connections between the characters will work, but I do have fairly fleshed out versions of each part of the story.
Zola:
Zola’s world is mostly empty. It’s a very large world with very few living creatures. The people are mostly ignorant of what is happening throughout the world. Zola’s people live in the “South” (till a fairly temperate climate). Most of them live in the valleys, and the smartest and strongest live up in the mountains. Obviously, there is some social unrest as those who live in the mountains see themselves as better, and the Valley Dwellers aren’t so happy about this.
Zola’s father is the King of these people, and since men and women are seen as equal, she is the heir. Sh’es very quiet and withdrawn, separated from people because of her status, but even among those close to her, she does not have very many friends. Her closest relationship is with her bodyguard, a Northman called Cledwyn.
Zola is also clairvoyant, to a degree. She can see things as they happen even if she is not there, and she remembers everything. Through dreams and visions that she cannot control, she can see the future(she can control seeing into the past and present, however).
The main arc of this part of the story involves the Valley Dwellers preparing to rise up. With far more manpower, Cledwyn believes that they can take the Mountains, and will kill the King and his daughter. He suggests they flee and return with mercenaries form the North to help them win the coming war, but the King is unwilling to listen to a Northman (sexism may not exist, but racism exists in full force).
Cledwyn argues that he should at least be able to take Zola away to the North for her own protection, and that he can send a messenger to find them once(if) the war is won. The King agrees, and the main part of the story is following Cledwyn and Zola as they travel North.
Other information(character appearances, personality), Zola is about 12 or 13. All of the Southerners as dark-skinned, but those who live in the mountains actually live inside the mountains(if I wasn’t clear). They look distinctly different form the Valley Dwellers as they are much paler skinned. Zola has short dark hair, and her eyes are silver/clear(when she looks into the past, present, or future, what see shes is reflected in her eyes).
Cledwyn is in his early 30s. He has reddish-blond hair and is almost seven feet tall. He does not speak the Southern tongue(lacking a name for it) very well, and is not respected in the Southern Courts. He became Zola’s bodyguard when he attacked a Southern envoy. The infant Zola was there, and when his fellow bandits wanted to kill her(along with everyone else, so that no word of their attack would reach anyone), he turned on them. He has since proven himself many times since, and is perhaps the best fighter in the whole Kingdom. Although the King trusts him to protect his daughter, he still looks down on Cledwyn for being from the North, and rarely listens to his advice.
The King’s name is Abioye.
Cedric:
Cedric Valence’s world is dead. Completely frozen over, the last survivors of humanity live in small underground cities. The people knew that the world was growing colder, and came up with a solution. A mysterious substance that when injected into the bloodstream allows a subject to survive extreme temperatures. This substance is known as… eh… Well, I need a name for it.
Some sort of sentient creature exists in this world as part of the ice. It controls the bodies of creatures that have frozen to death. The only thing that can fight them is this same substance.
Cedric does odd jobs, receiving payment to keep up his stockpile of this substance(in cities, most people receive barely enough to survive). By injecting far more into his bloodstream than most people, he is able to venture out into the outside world. Taking messages from different cities and doing other such things.
Cedric can also fight this icy beings with his blood. due to the high concentration of this substance in his bloodstream, coating his blade in his blood(he runs his hand across it before engaging in a fight) allows his blade to do harm to the monsters. As well, he has a gun that fires vials of the substance(that’s more costly, as he does kind of need them to survive).
Unlike the other protagonists, Cedric actually isn’t the one receiving the visions. He gets a job to find this girl in another city. He does, but when he returns to his employer, they’re dead. He tries to get rid of the girl, but then he begins to share her visions of the Weaver. Believing that it is important, Cedric goes to a place that the Weaver is drawing them to(his is also the most direct storyline, as most of the others don’t have a goal related to the Weaver).
This is probably one of the more eh… underdeveloped storylines, and I’m not too sure about what to do with it.
Other info: Cedric is in his 40s. He doesn’t like other people very much, but puts up with them because he has to. The girl he’s protecting and bringing to this place is about 7-8.
Unnamed Character/Red:
I still don’t have a name for this character. Well, in the story, she never has a name, but the only thing I’ve been calling her when outlining her story is Red. so, I suppose I’ll stick with that.
This part also takes place in a “Dead” world, but specifically one city. I don’t want to give too much away as to my plans for what the history of this world/city is…
The story follows Red waking up in a tower, with only a few fleeting memories that she isn’t even sure are hers. She has visions of the Weaver, but they don’t tell her anything, and certainly don’t give her any goals. She is left mostly to wander the city and discover it’s history and what happened to it, while trying to figure out who she is.
The city had a grid of AI that in some parts is still functioning and in some parts isn’t, and it seems like very few people lived there, rather, only robots or AI lived in the city.
Aaaaand…. I actually don’t really want to talk about this one too much.
Other information, obviously the girl has red hair, and she’s about 16-17. The city has been abandoned for decades, possibly centuries, and is falling apart.
Emery:
Emery lives in a very small world. Think just the size of North America. Emery lives in the largest city in this world, which is very diverse, but at the same time, split into several districts and very hateful towards certain groups of people.
Emery is a muckraker of sorts, taking down certain groups by digging up their secrets. He himself has done plenty of horrible things that he keeps secret.
The world has hit a wall as far as technological advancement, still advancing in some ways, but stunted in others. There aren’t enough natural resources for many things to exist. Electricity exists, but only through wind turbines and solar panels. People don’t own car,s but there is public transportation provided by the cities overseers. The Overseers regulate resources so that the city can continue to survive and thrive, but some people are unhappy about this. A certain group that in part owes its rise to power to Emery start to attack the overseers and take control of the city.
The majority of Emery’s story has little to do with the Weaver, and more to do with his quest to stop this organization. Emery has no allegiances, and only supports those who he thinks are doing the right thing.
Other information; the section of the city that Emery lives in; the most populated sector, persecutes homosexuals(and by extension bisexuals). Emery is homosexual, and this is his biggest weakness as far as secrets that could be exposed(while he’s done legitimately horrible things, it’s nothing that he could be killed over).
This feeds into a theme that will be built of the presentation of the city; that it is both diverse and hateful; accepting and intolerant. I’d like to play with the specifics of this theme once I start writing, but that’s a definite thing about Emery as a character.
(and for the record, Emery lives there because his efforts to protect the city will be most effective in that sector of the city, being that it’s the most populated, he can reach them most people there)
Other information about Emery, he definitely believes that the ends justify the means, and he’s probably the easiest of the protagonists to hate. He’s about 20-30.
Anyway, I’ll hopefully start writing parts of this story soon. Please tell me what you think about my plans for.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2015 14:14:00 GMT
Also, my response to someone that probably clear up what I was talking about:
The Kingdom is worth protecting because, well, for the people living there, it’s their home. It was basically set up for failure(it was always going to reach a point when the Valley Dwellers would rise up, since it was always established that those in the mountains didn’t have to work, and were regarded as “better”, simply because they were born there). It’s also worth protecting because it’s one of the only beacons of civilization. The world is mostly empty. There are very few people or animals in it. This kingdom is on of the few “civilized” communities of people.
Although the only POV is Zola, the story will kind of split between who’s the focus, Zola or Cledwyn. Because of Zola’s clairvoyance, she can see into the past, and most of her story is remembering what’s happened. Most of how life was like in the kingdom before the unrest boiled the surface will be told through her memories. She’s very quiet and withdrawn, so most of the story focusing on her is very… “internal”.
When the story does focus on what’s happening in the outside world, Zola almost forgets about herself, and focuses on Cledwyn. Cledwyn is the one dealing with most of the obstacles they encounter. Wild animals and bandits and such. But for the most part, this journey will be very “empty”. If you’ve ever read “The Road” or “The Gunslinger”, that’s the sort of feeling I’m hoping I can capture in writing it.
It will mostly focus on their relationship, and the past. Cledwyn’s past is also a large part of this story, but I’d rather not say anything about it.
I’m glad you think Cedric’s story is solid, because for me it seems almost like the most insubstantial(next to Emery’s). I’m just outlining the story right now, and quite a lot is subject to change, and along with that, I’m hoping that as I start writing, I’ll think of ways the flesh out the characters.
I’ll just answer some o these questions about Red’s story:
Yes she interacts with them, for better or worse. Some are humanoid, and some are simply part of a grid. Some have physical bodies, but don’t look human in the slightest. They all had different purposes before the city fell. The city reflects a human city(large skyscrapers, wide open streets, etc.), but the architecture is very alien. Some had bodies since they were meant as servants, police, or soldiers. Some lived along side the humans, and were made to be as human as possible. Finding other people is her main goal.
The idea of the city being split up into “sectors” is something I could have explained a little better. The city is a melting pot, but in which the “melting” part never really happened. There’s a lot of culture clash, and certain people from different cultures started to group together. The city was built to be the center of the world, it’s capitol, more or less, and so people from all over were drawn to it.
I suppose thinking of how actual cities in America are split up into different cultures a lot of the time. Where I live in Buffalo, you can more or less draw the line where one part ends and another begins. where mostly Irish people live, or Polish, or Dutch, or African-Americans, etc. I mean, when I went to Toronto, there was pretty much an area of several blocks where mostly LGBT people lived.
The overseers mostly let the people govern themselves, and since there’s quite a bit of culture clash, certain sectors of the city emerged. So each sectors more or less governs itself, and the culture of where most of the people came from leaks through into the government.
Emery is well-known in the city, and if anyone knew about his situation, he’d be offered protection from other sections of the city. However, he chooses to stay where he is even though it’s dangerous because that’s where he believes he is most needed. He needs to be where these organizations are to investigate them, and ruin them. In the past, he has moved to different sectors, but for the past few years, he’s stayed in the one where he is, as that’s where he’s been most needed.
“Hateful and accepting” reflects the different sectors. One of the sectors that would be completely fine with anyone’s sexuality hates people with different skin color than theirs(not white, pretty much). This idea that the city is built of people form all over the place, and some are accepting to others in some ways, but will continue to persecute others. There isn’t really a section of the city that accepts everyone. This idea that the city is built of people from all over the world, yet it’s a horribly hateful place in so many ways.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 15:42:52 GMT
So, I did this thing on tumblr where I just wrote a bit about some of my characters that I use in multiple stories. I had found a post with a list of suggestions for things writers should establish about their characters, and I used that, too. figred I might as well copy-paste the two posts I made here as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 15:44:30 GMT
OC: Daniel Crelourn
So, I decided I’d make some posts about some of my OCs. I guess I’ll start by describing them, and giving the general things that are the same about them no matter what story they’re in. Also, I’ll be referring to a single post here. Any, I’ll start with my go-to Protagonist, Daniel Crelourn.
Daniel’s backstory is more or less always the same. His mother died due to complications from child-birth, and his father died when he was quite young. The actual causes of that tend to differ. He was raised by his Aunt and Uncle, and lived with them, and his cousin Richard, for most of his life. From there, things also vary, but for the most part, he just floats through life, unsure of what to do. At this point, the story starts, and from there, everything is different.
He tends to be a someone who never seems to take things seriously, and always has his head in the clouds. But, when things get serious, he turns out to be someone you can count on under pressure or in stressful situations. Even though he’s very smart, he tends to make decisions based on intuition and instinct, and will do what he believes is right before he’ll do what’s actually right. Somethings also differ from story to story, but he’s mostly the same.
Appearance wise, he’s tall and skinny, but the kind of person who’s naturally skinny, not necessarily healthy. Definitely not strong or muscular, or “wiry”. He’s the kind of guy who can’t really do a pull-up or anything like that. He has a very “narrow” face, and kind of “sharp” features. I want to describe that better, but those are the words that fit, so… He has dark reddish-brown hair - would be considered kind of long for most guys - and green eyes. He has some facial hair, like, not a full beard, but he doesn’t keep his face clean-shaven. In most stories, he’s in his early twenties, sometimes older. He mostly wears plaid shirts, hoodies, and jeans.
Alright, I think I’ll give a better idea of who this character is by referring to that post. So, here we go:
“What would completely break your character?”
The thing that would ‘break’ Daniel would be the death of a loved one. However, for a lot of people, that would apply to quite a few people in their life. For Daniel, that would apply to only the people he truly loves. In most stories, this would be his best-friend, James, or Elizabeth(when they are in the same story together, regardless if she’s his girlfriend, or simply his best-friend. Again, it depends on the story). While there are certainly other people in his life that he loves, they aren’t ‘loved ones’ in the same sense as those two people are.
“What was the best thing in your character’s life?”
The best thing in Daniel’s life, again, differs from story to story, but I think I can surmise it as when he realizes that there’s another person in the world who truly loves him. Again, for Daniel, his ‘loved ones’ are the people he can’t live without, and when he realizes in any story, whether it’s part of the story or not, that he is that to another person, that’s the best moment of his life within that story.
“What was the worst thing in your character’s life?”
This also changes from story to story, but there’s actually a moment that for me is very vivid and connected to this character’s past. Obviously, before his father died, Daniel was raised by him alone. So, imagine a child of 4 or 5 waiting with a sitter(or perhaps alone), it having been hours since his father should have come home, and at that age, having to wrap his head around the fact that his father never would come home. Obviously in a story like “What Comes After”, there are far worse moments later in his life, but in any of the more… not awful stories, well, that’s it.
“What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?”
Camping trips with family. One specific one, Fireflies show up, and him and Richard try to catch them in bottles. Staring into the dark of the forest and imagining what’s beyond the trees. Waking up in the morning and cooking breakfast over a camp fire. Later in life, camping trips with friends. Playing the guitar for his friends late at night, drinking and having a good time. Those moments, and especially the things that “don’t matter” stick with him. He loves the forest and camping.
“Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?”
He doesn’t have a job per se. Like, ever. His best-friend James is a PI, and Daniel has a good mind for that stuff, so he sometimes helps James out as his “partner”, and gets money that way. He plays guitar and is a good singer, so sometimes he gets random gigs at various places, but mostly he just knows how to make his money last. I don’t think he could handle a job, so all he really has are his “hobbies”.
“What is your character reluctant to tell people?”
Daniel doesn’t like to talk about Richard. Richard, who he loved growing up, is a junkie by the time Daniel graduates from High School. He doesn’t want other people to know about his cousin and the destructive life-style he leads.
“How does your character feel about sex?”
So… unless sex is a big part of that character, then I don’t really think about it in relation to the character as I myself tend to just kind of let it slide and not think about it. I think about it a lot less than other people my age, I think. As a result, I don’t really think about it when thinking about my character, with a few exceptions. Daniel is not one of those exceptions.
“How many friends does your character have?”
He’s friendly with a lot of people, and he’s easy to like. A lot of people would probably consider themselves his friends, but he doesn’t really think of them as friends. To Daniel, friends are the people that you can talk to about anything. He has maybe 4-5 friends, in that case.
“How many friends does your character want?”
He doesn’t really care about having friends outside of those people that he an connect with. In his whole life, Daniel’s never gone out of his way to make friends, and the friends that he does have are people he just had a connection with.
“What would your character make a scene in public about?”
Just about anything. Daniel doesn’t really care about making a scene. It never crosses his mind that “hey, there are other people around, maybe I should keep my mouth shut and save this for later”. No, if he has something to say or something to yell about, then he’s saying it or yelling about it.
“What would your character give their life for?”
For his loved ones(see above for what that means for Daniel), or for what he believes is the “right thing”(may not actually be what’s really ‘right’).
“What are your character’s major flaws?”
If Daniel believes he’s right, then nothing can convince him otherwise, and he’ll do anything for what he believes to be the right thing. However, if he’s wrong, and he often is(although his mind is sharp and he has great intuition about somethings, he can have amazing poor judgement), then the guilt will eat away at him. He can never handle alcohol, but always turns to it when he feels incredibly guilty about something. He’s okay with alcohol in social situations, however. He can also be incredibly insensitive about others feelings.
“What does your character pretend or try to care about?”
Huh, this is an odd question… Pretend or try to care about. I guess you could say he tries to care more about… No, I really don’t know what this is asking. Anyone else, any ideas?
“How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?”
Daniel doesn’t try to project an image. As said previous, he really doesn’t care what people think about him a whole lot, and he’s just himself.
“What is your character afraid of?”
Daniel is afraid of dreams. His mind is turbulent and almost unstable, and he’s afraid of his dreams. Aside from that, his only other irrational fear is forgetting how to do certain things in situations where it could kill him. Forgetting how to skim when in a river, forgetting how to drive when he’s on the highway. Don’t ask why that is, it just occurred to me a while ago.
“What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?”
Well, this depends on the setting, of course. And since I use Daniel in quite a few stories and ideas, it really varies.
“Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale?”
Daniel could be on either end of that spectrum depending just on how he is. He can be the most perfect gentleman, or he can decide that he just doesn’t give a fuck about other people’s feelings. I wouldn’t say he’s “moody”, he’s generally in high-spirits just by default, but he can be shockingly polite, or shockingly rude.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 15:46:00 GMT
OC: Elizabeth Galloway
Decided to do this for more of my characters, specifically those I use in more than one story. Again, I’ll be referring to this post here.
Unfortunately, Elizabeth varies more greatly from story to story than Daniel, did, but I’ll try to just do this with how I write her in the majority of stories.
So… Unlike Daniel, I actually don’t have any set in stone backstory for this character. In general, I’ve kind of avoided her past, or, it really just hasn’t been relevant to any story she’s been in as of yet. In general, she’s very focused and definitely knows what she wants to do with her life. She’s also very intelligent, but only really “book smart”. Her parents… let’s say that they were well off, and she worked hard to get into college with scholarships and all that. Kind of just get this picture of a very goal-driven, focused person, I guess.
She’s very kind and cares about others a great deal. She wants to help others, and this is a core part of her personality. She’s generally soft-spoken, but not necessarily shy. She’s just not a loud person. She’s smart, but her minds works more on things that are learned rather than intuition. She can generally think her way around a problem, but wouldn’t be the type of person to seek out such issues. Someone who’s, as mentioned above, very goal-driven and focused, and also very capable. But, you might not know all that based on how she acts, mostly staying quiet, and in general being very withdrawn. Again, she’s not shy, but she wouldn’t be the type of person to initiate a conversation.
Appearance-wise… Actually, Elizabeth always looks a bit different. Sometimes she has glasses, sometimes she doesn’t. Her hair is always blond, but sometimes I describe it as being curly, or just kind of ‘wavy’(never straight). It’s always kind of long, but sometimes I describe her as mostly wearing it in a ponytail, or… well, not. Sometimes she has freckles, sometimes she doesn’t. She’s usually described in most of my stories as “small” and ‘slight’. Very petite. Actually average height, but she just seems like she’s shorter than she is.
Anyway, referring to that post from this point onwards:
“What would completely break your character?”
Not a whole lot, really. And even being ‘broken’, she’d still function better than most. Really, I don’t think I’ve ever done a story in which she’s ‘broken’, and given the situations she survives in a lot of the stories she’s in(whether written or unwritten. Mostly unwritten), I really don’t know what would ‘break’ her. I guess she’s the type of person who would carry a tremendous amount of sadness and anger but just keep going, and eventually, all of it, wherever it’s from, would just all collapse around her at some point. The thing to ‘break’ her might even be completely insignificant, but it would be like the straw that breaks the camel’s back, I suppose.
“What was the best thing in your character’s life?”
This is really impossible to answer as it almost always happens in whichever story she’s in, and is not a part of her character. It also isn’t something that I could describe like I did with Daniel, and it’s usually a specific moment.
“What was the worst thing in your character’s life?”
Again, usually happens within the story, usually a very specific thing.
“What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?”
Moments that would seem insignificant to most people, but that stick with Liz, are pretty much any moment when she makes other people smile. She loves being able to make others happy.
“Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?”
Uses hobbies as a way of filling up the time she isn’t working. Although, I’m not sure she really has any ‘hobbies’. When she’s not working, she tends to read, or hang out with friends… she doesn’t really have any hobbies.
“What is your character reluctant to tell people?”
Liz isn’t really reluctant to tell people anything. Obviously she won’t tell her deepest darkest secrets to people she doesn’t know, but she’s very open with her friends.
“How does your character feel about sex?”
I already explained this in my post about Daniel Crelourn in that I don’t really think about sex a whole lot, ergo it’s not an issue with most of my characters.
“How many friends does your character have?”
Liz is friendly with a lot of people, and would consider those people to be her friends, even if she doesn’t know them well.
“How many friends does your character want?”
See above, she tries to be friendly with most people. Even though she won’t start a conversation or go out of her way to make friends, she tries to be friendly with the people she does talk to.
“What would your character make a scene in public about?”
Almost nothing. If she thinks that something would make a scene, she’ll do almost anything to avoid it.
“What would your character give their life for?”
Simply put, another person. Almost any other person.
“What are your character’s major flaws?”
Elizabeth tends to stretch herself to thin, and in general, doesn’t care enough about herself.
“How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?”
Again, she doesn’t really try to project an image.
“What is your character afraid of?”
The dark and being alone. Not separately, together. Being alone in the dark.
“What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?”
Depends on the setting, obviously.
“Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale?”
Tries to be as polite as possible.
I think I gave a lot less information on this post than I did on the other one, but that’s because, as I said, I write Elizabeth a little more varied from story to story, whereas Daniel is very similar in any story to any other version of himself.
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Post by IDEK on Jul 5, 2015 16:12:38 GMT
these seem intresting.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2015 20:50:08 GMT
I sort of want to ask about something...
So I'm planning a story and I'm not too sure about the names I have for the two protagonists. For one, I've basically settled on the name Everett, but for a surname, I'm stuck between Walker, Wright, Hill, or Greene. The other is Jaimie Key, and i'm just not sure at all how I feel about that name.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 21:25:08 GMT
I sort of want to ask about something... So I'm planning a story and I'm not too sure about the names I have for the two protagonists. For one, I've basically settled on the name Everett, but for a surname, I'm stuck between Walker, Wright, Hill, or Greene. The other is Jaimie Key, and i'm just not sure at all how I feel about that name. Tbh, Everett works better as a surname. Everett Walker, Everett Wright or others don't sound very well. On the other hand Jamie Key sounds fine. (I do understand your problems, I have trouble coming up with character names all the time. I often use name generators though)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 22:43:05 GMT
I sort of want to ask about something... So I'm planning a story and I'm not too sure about the names I have for the two protagonists. For one, I've basically settled on the name Everett, but for a surname, I'm stuck between Walker, Wright, Hill, or Greene. The other is Jaimie Key, and i'm just not sure at all how I feel about that name. Tbh, Everett works better as a surname. Everett Walker, Everett Wright or others don't sound very well. On the other hand Jamie Key sounds fine. (I do understand your problems, I have trouble coming up with character names all the time. I often use name generators though) I know it's more commonly used as a surname, with him, I wanted to give him a name that was a bit odd. (although, apparently Everett as a first name is within the Top 100 most popular names for 2014 in the United States, so I guess it won't be too odd for long). I think I'm going to stick with the name Jaimie(or Jamie, not sure about the alternate spelling, but on the site I use, behindthename.com, Jaimie is seen as being more feminine than Jamie from a good 1000 or so votes), but I think I want to find a different surname.... And even with the name Jaimie as a first name, I think I want to find something different. I basically did a search for non-masculine J names from England & Wales, but I think I may want to find a different name. Still probably going to search for J names. And as far as Everett's name, I think I'm going to go with Wright since some other people I've asked said that sounds the best.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2015 19:23:25 GMT
Think I'm going with Everett Wright for one character, but I need an opinion on the name of the second protagonist.
I've come up with a few names for the character. To provide just a small bit of information about the character, she's a photographer who lives in a small rural-ish town (have you ever seen anything even about Twin Peaks? It's like that) and is sort of happy to stay there forever, but wants to get recognition as an artist. She's kind of withdrawn and really sensitive about certain things, but can be really outgoing as well. Anyway, the names I was thinking of were(and I wanted some more.... eh, I tried to look for kind of more uncommon names, but not really out there or anything):
Rowan Lane
Josèphine (zho-ze-FEEN) Lane
Josèphine Lestrange
Josèphine Labelle
Jamie Linwood
Jaimie Linwood
Wynne Howell
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2015 20:04:36 GMT
Think I'm going with Everett Wright for one character, but I need an opinion on the name of the second protagonist. I've come up with a few names for the character. To provide just a small bit of information about the character, she's a photographer who lives in a small rural-ish town (have you ever seen anything even about Twin Peaks? It's like that) and is sort of happy to stay there forever, but wants to get recognition as an artist. She's kind of withdrawn and really sensitive about certain things, but can be really outgoing as well. Anyway, the names I was thinking of were(and I wanted some more.... eh, I tried to look for kind of more uncommon names, but not really out there or anything): Rowan Lane Josèphine (zho-ze-FEEN) Lane Josèphine Lestrange Josèphine Labelle Jamie Linwood Jaimie Linwood Wynne Howell I'd say Josèphine Labelle. It just... clicked with me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2015 21:14:04 GMT
Think I'm going with Everett Wright for one character, but I need an opinion on the name of the second protagonist. I've come up with a few names for the character. To provide just a small bit of information about the character, she's a photographer who lives in a small rural-ish town (have you ever seen anything even about Twin Peaks? It's like that) and is sort of happy to stay there forever, but wants to get recognition as an artist. She's kind of withdrawn and really sensitive about certain things, but can be really outgoing as well. Anyway, the names I was thinking of were(and I wanted some more.... eh, I tried to look for kind of more uncommon names, but not really out there or anything): Rowan Lane Josèphine (zho-ze-FEEN) Lane Josèphine Lestrange Josèphine Labelle Jamie Linwood Jaimie Linwood Wynne Howell I'd say Josèphine Labelle. It just... clicked with me. Seems to be what everyone else I've asked likes the most, too. I'm still waiting on some other responses from people I've asked though. I'm kind of hesitant to say this, but I'm hoping I'll have the first chapter up soon, like maybe this week, depends. I'm not good with schedules, but I've been feeling inspired to work on the story that these characters are a part of. Thanks for the input.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 22:42:41 GMT
I'd say Josèphine Labelle. It just... clicked with me. Seems to be what everyone else I've asked likes the most, too. I'm still waiting on some other responses from people I've asked though. I'm kind of hesitant to say this, but I'm hoping I'll have the first chapter up soon, like maybe this week, depends. I'm not good with schedules, but I've been feeling inspired to work on the story that these characters are a part of. Thanks for the input. Oh yeah, chapter up this week. THAT worked out. *sigh*
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