Names, about wuxia
Hello, fellow daoists
I'd like to seek your help to help me brainstorm names for everything that is used in a wuxia novel. I'd like to discuss how you think for your names, be it a character name, a city name, a place name, technique name or anything like that. I'm planning to write a novel, but I'm feeling pretty uncomfortable about the names in which I pick up.
And I can't find creativty to think of names for generic characters. I mean, with my shallow understanding of chinese names (i'm probably wrong about something), they name people in regard to what they are. Ex: "Yan" yan is someone lovely, happy or something around that. It's just an example, I don't remember what yan is. Mainly, I think of my characters personality, and go to the dictionary to search for a name for them. Albeit I'd like to insert some variations. For example, insted of Lao, Laojie, or something like that, but I don't know how.
Besides... I can't seem to think of this for generic characters, this is killing me. Should I just name that irrevelant dude to what?
Anyway, I'll probably make lots of posts about these stuff, I seek your patience, as I like to talk about it very much.
Thank you all for your help,
Sincerely, Shire!
I'd like to seek your help to help me brainstorm names for everything that is used in a wuxia novel. I'd like to discuss how you think for your names, be it a character name, a city name, a place name, technique name or anything like that. I'm planning to write a novel, but I'm feeling pretty uncomfortable about the names in which I pick up.
And I can't find creativty to think of names for generic characters. I mean, with my shallow understanding of chinese names (i'm probably wrong about something), they name people in regard to what they are. Ex: "Yan" yan is someone lovely, happy or something around that. It's just an example, I don't remember what yan is. Mainly, I think of my characters personality, and go to the dictionary to search for a name for them. Albeit I'd like to insert some variations. For example, insted of Lao, Laojie, or something like that, but I don't know how.
Besides... I can't seem to think of this for generic characters, this is killing me. Should I just name that irrevelant dude to what?
Anyway, I'll probably make lots of posts about these stuff, I seek your patience, as I like to talk about it very much.
Thank you all for your help,
Sincerely, Shire!
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