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Dulltown, UK: Today's mollusc is the one that works in the Planning Department of Dulltown City Council.
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Are you a writer? Do you write stories?
Do you struggle coming up with good, memorable, and descriptive names for the characters that you create? A lot of people have jolly good stories in their heads, but when it comes to giving the people that inhabit them interesting names, they seem to settle for dreary every day, and unfortunately quite believable names, which are, for the reader, easily forgotten after the first few pages.
I'm reading a few Cordwainer Smith books (early 1960s science fiction) at present - goodness me, he came out with super names for his people. How about: Houghton Syme, D'Joan, Rod McBan, Lady Panc Ashash, and Lord Redlady?
My friend Veronica Crush, writer from the glory days of the Hull Surrealist League (now living in New York with tall tree surgeon and heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune, Monty Tick) thinks up plenty of good character names, all the time. She also sends me lists of them, so that I can put them into my blog (on pages like this one) to share, free of charge, or as she says now, 'for free', to any writers who struggle with naming their fictional folk.
Do feel free to dip in!
She has also slipped a real person's name into the list. See if you can spot which one it is! The answer to the puzzle may be found via the link at the bottom of the page.
Wally Watfore
Rosemary Strangler RA
Mark Person
Sir Toby Milkshake
Bethany Shoes
Giles Brillianteen MA
Lord Wallace Lacewall
Tanya Jayne Buggs
Sally Memberton-Coops
Simon Murdoch Terrah
Jean-Paul Speckles
'Big' Bill Rammels
Mika McKinnon
Ruby Twelves
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For the answer to V's puzzle, please click here.
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