In addition to not being able to remember people’s names in real life, I am terrible at making up names.  (Unless of course we’re talking about puns, then I’m the champ.  I have a friend named Bronwyn.  She has the best name ever for punning.  Bronwynsaurus, like Brontosaurus.  Bron-loser, change the wyn to loser.  Etc.)  I think I have all of the characters and locations figured out, but I do not have names for all of them.

I’ve only got four characters out of 11 named.  It’s hard.  I don’t want to give them stupid Fantasy names…

(Back to my story…)

The Hero, Luke.  I’m back and forth on this one.  Some days I feel too vain, other days I just don’t care.

An old captain, Malcolm Reynolds (Stolen directly from Firefly.)  It is supposed to be an homage but I might have to change it a bit.  Maybe I’ll change “Reynolds” to “Reyn” or “Renn”.  Although that is starting to sound a little bit too Fantasy.

An upper class lady, Clare.  Named after a contestant on Australia’s Next Top Model.

A scientist, Colin.  Named after a contestant on Make Me A Supermodel.

I know… two people named after modelling-reality-show contestants.  It’s just that I was watching these shows a lot while I was making up the story and these two fit the characters quite well.  Although both characters have to be older in the story than they are in real life.

I still need names for an old Princess (40ish), a soldier, a tough-young-lady, a grumpy old man, a handful of bad guys and a few others.

Don’t worry, the Princess won’t be named Tyra.