Helping me chose the character names.


'Criminal-thriller'

1. Main guy: 'Finley Dempsey or Dragos Spanish-Italo-Europo or Torrente Tuco'? - Or give me some mafian
surname which start with letter T. But must be American.

2. Tall elegant blond women, Tv presenter: 'Stella or Charlene or Bella Blonde'?

3. 'Blacky' is a little bit of a humorous person, rapper type: 'Dayane Jackson'?

4. The Milky guy. Is inefficient, a white guy with orange hair like scandinavian. Total
milky scan. A nonchalant figure: 'Alex Butler'?

5. Police detectiv (kind of a bad guy): 'Castilo Tarboda or Domenic Cobelli or Pete
Wilson or Carl Schneider or Mr Anderson or George Anderson'?

-also:

1. which city is the best for crime about the cars?
2. which city is most famous about Lottery winners?
3. wich city is most famous about tv show - Who wants to be millioner?


Best regards!

Ive never thought the name of characters was really all that important.  It seems like no one really agrees with me though, so Im sure you will get some help.

u want hear my story. firstly i have use only guy, she, owner, etc... than the professionals told me to use for main charcters the real names.

as this is my second one... Please help me. Give some good names.

Tucoo:

Call it a hunch, but I am guessing that you have never been to:

1.  Detroit
3.  Los Angeles
(there is no 2.)

When writers choose locales they are unfamiliar with, their stories are often quite unrealistic.  I recently read a script set in New Orleans, by an author who had never been there, and the story was chock full of things that couldn't possibly have happened.

My advice is to set your story somewhere that you are very familiar with, which will make the writing process that much easier for you.

Quoted from Tucoo Helping me chose the character names. 2. which city is most famous about Lottery winners? Best regards!

Las Vegas maybe

-Zavier

100 Largest Metro Areas:
(Ranked in order from Least to Most Crime)

   Index Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto theft

New Yourk NY         1,968.4 1.7 5.9 48.6 75.3 250.8 1,409.4 176.7
Los Angeles CA      3,998.3 11.8 29.3 303.9 557.4 628.8 1,737.9 729.2
Las Vegas NV-AZ    4,811.2 9.9 40.1 266.8 362.0 1,003.7 2,181.4 947.2
Miami FL                7,170.6 8.7 35.5 358.0 714.1 1,108.5 4,046.0 899.9
Memphis TN-AR-MS 7,224.6 15.1 55.2 378.0 606.6 1,769.7 3,483.2 916.8
Tucson AZ              7,543.0 8.1 48.7 173.5 401.3 1,057.7 4,883.6 970.0
          

* indicates 2002 UCR crime rates not reported by FBI. Estimated from prior and current statistics.

I had use las vegas... but as i do live by the sea, Miami sounds better to me.

Thats surprising.  Chicago isn't even on their, yet whenever I meet someone from Wisconsin or New york, and they learn i am from Chicago they always do this little machine gun motion and say "oh chicago, with all the gangs."

no, this is only towns i have pick it up... Is long list....

Los ageles is not big deal. Chikago as vell. Tucson is the worst and NY is the best.

Chicago IL 4,367.0 9.8 42.6 272.4 408.1 597.7 2,580.0 456.4

I've said it before:  New York rocks!


Phil

Ok, give me the names. I want to put inside american mafian names.

And for your opinium. Can I use Blacky and Whity? How that sound to you?

when i am stumped for character names i just pull out the old high school yearbooks

ok. rong forum. u are not the gunge.

Quoted from Tucoo Helping me chose the character names. 'Criminal-thriller' 1. Main guy: 'Finley Dempsey or Dragos Spanish-Italo-Europo or Torrente Tuco'? - Or give me some mafian surname which start with letter T. But must be American. 2. Tall elegant blond women, Tv presenter: 'Stella or Charlene or Bella Blonde'? 3. 'Blacky' is a little bit of a humorous person, rapper type: 'Dayane Jackson'? 4. The Milky guy. Is inefficient, a white guy with orange hair like scandinavian. Total milky scan. A nonchalant figure: 'Alex Butler'? 5. Police detectiv (kind of a bad guy): 'Castilo Tarboda or Domenic Cobelli or Pete Wilson or Carl Schneider or Mr Anderson or George Anderson'? -also: 1. which city is the best for crime about the cars? 2. which city is most famous about Lottery winners? 3. wich city is most famous about tv show - Who wants to be millioner? Best regards!

For character names try acquiring a name dictionary or a history of names book..

There are a lot of books on the market for writers and for soon-to-be parents to help them choose a name for their child.

Naming characters is a subtle business and one which needs careful consideration.

In my experience of reading screenplays I've noticed writers tend to give their characters metophorical names which make the character sound like the flaw or personality trait.

For example:

Private eye could be named WALKER

Hippy Girl could be named HONEY POTTS

Prostitute could be named LUCY LIPS - as in Loose Lips..

You get the picture.

There are  alof of books published which cater for the concept of names and not just for people either. I have a book which deals with all kinds of names from houses, buildings, boats,  ships, planes, cats, dogs and many other things besides..

When writing screenplays and deciding upon characters names you can name a character and then give them a "nickname". When the character speaks dialogue then user the nickname to signify their dialogue..

If you visit Amazon and type in books about names you'll no doubt some up with quite a lot of books in this field. If you are unable to afford to buy a book like this then visit your local library and see if they can find one of these books for you. Alternatively, see if there are some web sites which specialze in "names", there must be some out there..

Hope this helped with your ideas..

Kevan, can u help me to write a book? Screenplay have become so cheap.

wat on earth!?