Cools Stuff for Writers
Posted by danleone on August 7th, 2007 filed in blogging, writingWhile continuing to avoid doing my writing, I have had a very difficult time coming up with names. On the one hand, I want people to relate to them, but on the other, they need to be reasonably random. For example, I have been struggling to find a name for my protagonist, who is Italian. I finally settled in on Dino “Dean” Cedrone. The problem is that I feel like I know a million Dino Cedrones. So, it is obvious that I should not rely on my own memory to come up with a name.
Now, there is a website, called Fake Name Generator. This site will generate a name based on certain criteria such as gender, nationality and country of origin. It not only generates a name, but a completely believable address, social security number, email address, mother’s maiden name and even a birth date.
In a matter of seconds, I have some purely appropriate names of characters in my novel:
Pantaleone Napolitani
Filomena Arcuri
Filiberto Giordano
Guglielmo Colombo
etc
Give it a shot, it helps.
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August 7th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Interesting names! Might be fun to play with the Fake Name Generator.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Wha….
Mine came up with Dan Leone
(ok, so it didn’t but it would have been good if it did)
August 8th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Filiberto has to be the best name I’ve heard in forever lol.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
My new name is Nicole R. Taylor.
Sounds like I should be a romance writer, no?
Desire in the Desert
by Nicole Taylor
I think that just might work.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Nice find Dan. As a musician and artist, I always wanted to have an identity of a French female living in the Swiss Alps and the FNG came up with this one for me…
Daisi Turcotte
but what I’m trying to figure out is how it knew enough about my real personality to give me this email address …
Daisi.Turcotte@trashymail.com
!!!
August 10th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Jana Zimmerman is my new German name. Good to know if I ever need to return to my roots. Polish and Irish weren’t offered, or I would have gone for those.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I’ve happened here through MyBlogLog and am quite puzzled at why someone so articulate and funny is visiting my droll place on the web. Literally, I’m crying I’m laughing so hard. Gotta go…need to finish the rest of your blog. It seems I can never get enough caca and oyster stories.