WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 30 -- Monday

[linaewen]

Hello on Monday! Is it an awesome day for you, or are you thinking of going back to bed (or going to bed early, depending on your time zone)?

What writing-related pursuit did you engage in today -- or yesterday, if you haven't gotten going as yet?

• I thought about my fic once or twice
• I wrote
• I did some planning and/or research
• I edited
• I've sent my fic off to my beta
• I posted today!
• I'm taking a break
• I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

For our discussion of the day, let me introduce you to the Writer Leopard:

When writing original fic or creating original characters for canon-based fic, how do you go about choosing names for your characters? Is it a big deal for you to have just the right name or does it not matter all that much?  How detailed do you actually get when planning your characters?

Comments

[the_rck]

I wrote quite a bit yesterday, and I've done a little so far today. I'm pleased with my progress even if I'm not entirely sure about the plot development I've just put in.

For names for original characters, I frequently turn to a particular baby name book--- What to Name the Baby by Evelyn Wells. It's really useful because it gives a vast number of variants of every name it lists, variants from a lot of different languages. I can usually find something that sounds right to me, and if I don't, I take something that's close and modify it.