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Title: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 01, 2004, 10:38:36 PM: I came up with a completely NEW plot idea. it's the most consistant idea i've got, so I'm running with it (and i have a complete outline, I just need to do details). But I need names, and Entropy isn't being helpful.

so, I need these names:
A young king who is dying from a curse
the name of his kingdom
the princess from the neighboring kingdom who is supposed to marry him for political reasons
The name of her home kingdom
the names of her parents

Everything else i'm more comfortable just winging.

go crazy, just try to give me stuff i cna use
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Fellfrosch on November 01, 2004, 11:12:28 PM: Someone posted this link on the NaNo forums, and I think it's very cool. You ahve to do a bit of advance work, generating a "feel" for your language, but then you just plug it all in and the program gives you a bunch of very cool words suitable for names, places, and anything else you can think of:

http://www.fantasist.net/wordmaker.shtml

The same poster included this link, which I haven't checked thoroughly but which seems to be a little simpler for those of us with no time for linguistics:

http://ebon.pyorre.net/
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 01, 2004, 11:15:25 PM: oh, I've had lots of name generators, none of them gave stuff that appealed to me.

I also stopped hitting the nano forums, they were taking time up that I couldn't take away from actually WRITING my nano.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on November 02, 2004, 12:32:51 AM: I feel the same way. I do like to post my current word count though.

Here are some names

King: Fester, Pewter, Pellinor (rip-off, but it's been trying to be used all day), Larry, Grog

Kingdom: Alitag, Ragnith, Uklan, Ventar

Princess: Isbeth (j/k), Kelath, Mysta, Gurenth, Fronella

Kingdom: (see above)

Mom: Bera, Calina, Treena

Dad: Pensad, Latink, Kenneth

Hope, that helps.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 02, 2004, 02:34:57 AM: Erk. See, the thing that most annoys me about fantasy is the stupid names.

In my latest attampt at Fantasy, I used the names Zachary and Edward. They fit the tone, and they're real names, not jumbles of letters. So try that. Try real names
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Fellfrosch on November 02, 2004, 03:28:05 AM: The first part of my book deals with street rats, so I just gave them all nicknames rather than silly fantasy names. The main character is Bug.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 02, 2004, 09:38:59 AM: the problem, JP, is they take place in different wrolds. THe culture's not the same, why would the names be the same?
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Spriggan on November 02, 2004, 11:31:04 AM: For names, when I want realsitic ones, I goto MSN's baby page. They've got a namer there that lets you choose male/female, what ethnic origin(s) you want the name from, how many sylables and what letters to start/end with. For countries/cities I use AutoRealm which is a GNU mapmakeing software with name generators for city countries. You can choose all sorts of options (includeing a Tolkin one).

http://autorealm.sourceforge.net/

http://baby.msn.com/tool/tools.aspx?name=namer&dept=baby&sdept=bpc
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 02, 2004, 07:25:30 PM: All fantasy stories take place in different worlds. Why then, do they all have names that sound exactly the same? At least with real names you don't need to spend twenty minutes trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 02, 2004, 08:04:15 PM: since you don't typically read the genre, I'm finding this sort of criticism less helpful.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 03, 2004, 04:01:26 PM: ALright, who wants to write wedding vows for my story? eh? Eh? I know some of you girls have thought of this, even you Mormons who know that you never have to come up with such a thing. it's a fantasy, quasi-late-MEdieval, with a semi-monotheistic religion. Really more of a dualist religion, really. Any takers?
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: 42 on November 03, 2004, 05:31:29 PM: Gee-fickle-fife--meet your new wife.
Hubba-dub-dub you're now in the club.

now isn't that romantic?
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 03, 2004, 06:37:26 PM: Quote
Gee-fickle-fife--meet your new wife.
Hubba-dub-dub you're now in the club.

now isn't that romantic?

I think this is why I thought of women before men.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on November 04, 2004, 03:21:02 PM: I never thought up my own wedding vows, but maybe I just never attended enough non-LDS weddings.

I'd like to help, but perhaps one of the ladies who isn't working on NaNo this year would be a better resource. Unless you're wife could give you some good ideas?
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 04, 2004, 04:08:08 PM: i just need to visualize the whole scene I hope to have it out by dinner.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Prometheus on November 05, 2004, 12:36:47 PM: If I write your story's wedding vows, do I get the word count for it, or do you? Hm.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 05, 2004, 01:06:24 PM: I already wrote the ceremony. I think I did a good job. I didn't include any "I do" stuff, but I figured that's very our culture anyway. So i think it works. It's in the text that I link to on the calendar for me everyday.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: Prometheus on November 05, 2004, 01:32:05 PM: With this project, if it's already in the text, I'm trying not to think about it anymore. Good to hear that you're happy with your ceremony scene, though.
Title: Re: Name My NaNo
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 05, 2004, 05:14:48 PM: My immortal guy has turned into a sort of Jeeves. Maybe I should write comedy...