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Unusual
Character Names for Writers
A
work of fiction can be enriched and enlivened by the use of unusual
and interesting character names. Meanings behind names that are
symbolic of a character’s situation or personality can add depth
to the text. Names that are rarely used in literature, film and
other media can help to make your work stand out by making it
seem fresh, original and memorable. Each of the names in this
book has been carefully researched and selected for its originality,
rarity, beauty, poetry, meaning, symbolism, humour, or for its
downright weirdness.
When
a celebrity's first name is sufficient for everyone to know who
it is, that's the sign of an unusual name. Ringo doesn't need
'Starr'. Elvis didn't need 'Presley'. If you create a fictional
character so successful that its first name has the same effect
then you know you've done well.
In
deciding what constitutes an 'unusual' name (in the context of
English-speaking countries), it would have been easy simply to
raid the phone books of exotic lands and fill this tome with Chinese,
African and Inuit names. Whilst there are inevitably many names
that are of foreign origin in this collection, what I have attempted
to do is to restrict the listings to those names which have some
degree of familiarity due to their relevance to the culture and
history of English-speaking lands.
There
are many wonderful names that are familiar to us from the works
of Shakespeare yet which rarely see the light of day in the modern
world. There are historic people - from the Romans to the Victorians
- whose names trip off the tongue in a delightful way when rediscovered.
There are Biblical names that are wonderfully evocative and poetic.
Additionally, there is a new category of unusual names spawned
by celebrities who seem to have a knack for finding (or coining)
bizarre and interesting names for their children.
Download
this great eBook now and give your characters sizzlingly hot names!
***
Each name in this eBook is accompanied by information about its
geographical origin, its symbolic meaning, examples of previous
usage in literature and real life, as well as nicknames that other
characters can use to refer to them.***
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