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Could use a little help on two items
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Haru on November 11, 2015, 07:42:24 PM ---I like the Olympia trick for the name problem. Open up the wikipedia page for the Olympic team of the country you are looking for and mix and match the names you find there. You can even go by years, to see what might have been popular.
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cool. cool. cool.
Farmerbob1:
--- Quote from: Haru on November 11, 2015, 07:42:24 PM ---I like the Olympia trick for the name problem. Open up the wikipedia page for the Olympic team of the country you are looking for and mix and match the names you find there. You can even go by years, to see what might have been popular.
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Or you can use names from historical figures related to your setting/topic. If you read David Weber's Honor Harrington series, AND happen to know a few names of who's who in the space sciences, you will see a lot of (last name) connections. Mr. Weber clearly uses lists of space science inventor/researcher last names for a lot of his characters. He also re-used a lot of names between the one-shot Path of the Fury and the Honorverse series.
So, even if you do not claim any sort of relationship between your characters and the real life characters with similar names, anyone who DOES know the history of the art will recognize that you, the author, see a connection.
(Jim does this with Harry as well, but it's a LOT more obvious.)
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Farmerbob1 on November 23, 2015, 04:38:42 PM ---(Jim does this with Harry as well, but it's a LOT more obvious.)
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Or vague tributes, like Ronald Reuel.
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