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[silverthorne]

I hate being a girl.

Also, for those of you that did NaNo...did you pull names out of your asses for the characters and/or place names? If you did, did you change or keep them once NaNo was over and you were writing/editing to make the story something worthy of the sight of others? Inquiring minds and all that (yes, I'm still working on it, although with as distracting as being around my family is, I haven't gotten far....but I'll still have 5 days more of vacation once I get home...).

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[melusine.livejournal.com]

I keep a name file for characters. Every so often, I go through old census records online and pick out any first names that catch my eye and add those to the file. It works great, and the stuff from the 1800s is usually the best for fantasy settings. I mostly stick to records from the mid- and deep- south, since that's where my roots are from.