How to Name Your Characters in Your Book

   One of the most important things you have to think about when writing a book is the names of your characters.  This will be extremely important if you are dealing with certain types of stories base on a time in history, cultural, and mythological, etc.  These types of stories you really need to pay attention to when naming your characters.  

     The other things you need to be careful is when naming your characters if two characters first names start with the same first letter.  The reason I say this is that you can mix up these names without even thinking about it.  Believe me, this can happen.  It happened to me, but luckily I discovered it during one of my edits.  (Here is a video below talking about how to name your characters).

     As you can see from the video above, naming characters can be difficult.  The one thing I learned from this video was creating a list of names to always have on hand.  I have to tell you this list has helped me in more ways than one.  Another thing I have discovered about naming characters is a website called:  "Behind the Name" to which I have linked.  This is a handy website because it gives you lists of names from different nationalities.  I have found this site to be quite handy when naming characters.  Maybe it will help you too.

     In my next blog entry, I am going to discuss the difficulties you will face when marketing your book or books.

     So stay tuned!