Can you write a story and never give the main character's name? What if it's revealed later rather in the beginning?
He was standing beside me by the gate of the crowded train. His face reminded me of the anguish I go through daily. My little daughter crushed beneath his wheels. She was playing in her locality when an over speeding car caused her to meet her doom. I couldn't save her. The car never stopped. I could only catch the glimpse of the driver. He escaped without any trouble. Nobody could identify him. No one knew his name. The police couldn't find the car. Justice to my daughter deprived.Now I see him again just a few inches away. The lust of revenge is tempting. A simple push and no one would notice and my revenge would be sought .And I did exactly that. The newspaper next day confirmed this accidental death and at last I got to know his name.Now I see him again. In a dark, desolated lane. His steps unsteady. Smell of alcohol dripping from his body. But how can he be walking? I killed him last week. I can't take chances. An iron rod to his head to eliminate him. At last I have had my revenge. The next morning the newspaper confirmed this death but this time with a different name.Now I see him again standing on the foot end of the barren roof. Breeze of wind brushing his hair, blowing sand and dust particles collected from the under constructed roof. His clothes resemble that of a construction worker now. How could he have been behind the wheel of a Honda City that day? Why do these all faces look the same? Or is it me who is trying to find all that I can kill as same? The answer is unknown, but the result was the same. The name was a different again.I don't know how many more I have to kill to avenge? How much more blood need to be shed to be sure? How many more same faces to pay the price? I would eradicate whenever I would find one. I would go to the extent that the numbers of these faces are left none.I will play with all I have to win this revengeful game.I agree,The task would have been simpler If only I would have known HIS NAME.
I'm writing a story and i need some help with names?
Female, medium height long brown wavy/straight hair that falls down her back, rosy cheeks and eyes that change colour with her mood but neutral is a light sky blue colour (: She is brave speaks her mind plainly and is strong willed. The boy i thought he could be tall with short brown hair maybe a little bit curly and kind of spiked up at the front with brown intense eyes, he is always smiling and rarely shares his feelings and is a more of a to himself kinda guy. The mother is just average build with brown shoulder length hair and muddy brown eyes that are always sweeping around her searching for something or no importance. The father a mysterious guy very tall with dirty blond hair that he ties back in a pony tail in the nape of his neck all the time. He doesn't share alot and is very intense. The friend, he is an ex warrior and is middle aged, ver tan and alot of scars hiden all over his body from battle , brown hair cut very short with pale green eyes that are always staring off into the distance and always look deep in thought about past lifes. So if people could please help me with some names and i also need some names for mountains, and villages and stuff, thanks everyone (: xx ps. i thought maybe Alexandra May r te first girl and ppl couild shorten it to Alex for a nickname plz tel me if you like it or not :D
Why should the main character in my story get a buzz cut?
Maybe she got head-lice from a little kid or something, and her mother panicked and shaved her hair off, even though it's totally unnecessary to do that. I just remember when head-lice were going round at my school when I was little, about five or six, and one kid, a girl, came in with this really, really short haircut. Instead of just treating the lice with a de-lousing shampoo or whatever, the girl's mother made her have all her hair cropped right down to the scalp. Stupid, but I bet she's not the only mother ever to panic and do that. Especially if the mother is a bit of an OCDish clean-freak type. Another situation might be an accident. For instance, maybe she and her friends were messing around with fireworks and her hair got burnt. Hair burns *really* fast. So maybe her hair caught fire on side and although her friends managed to put it out before her face/scalp got burnt, she lost a lot of hair and had to have it all cut right down. If she's not the type to be stupid with fireworks, then a similar accident could occur if she was, say, helping out with a barbecue and her long hair caught in the flames or something. Or a candle. Or maybe she has a little brother/sister who cut a great chunk out of her hair while she was asleep or something, so it had to be buzz-cut to even it up.
What are some good hero and villain names for male characters?
I'm trying to write a small story but I keep getting stuck on the names. I need some names for the male hero and villain of my story. I would like my male villain to have a name that is easily abbreviated into an annoying nickname.
Writers: A little help on writing a large-scale battle scene?
Battle scenes can be intimidating, but they can be done. I have written one, and I think I pulled it off reasonably well (other opinions may vary :P). I agree with keeping the focus on one character. What I did was engage all the senses of my character: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. This way you can show the chaos of a major battle. The tremendous sound of warriors fighting, with their screams of challenge and pain and of weapons engaging. The sight of enemy combatants coming at your character from all sides and the frantic actions to ensure survival. Smoke from fires that can blind, then part to reveal those who are still fighting and those who are dying (you can do "wide-picture" shots with this, but make it brief). The smell of that smoke, and of sweat, blood, and body odor. The taste of dust in the character's mouth, and of the raging thirst he/she will soon be feeling. If you are using swords, the feel of the character's blade as it slices into enemy flesh, the splash of blood, and then quickly turning away to face the next fighter. Make it physically visceral. Emotionally, during the battle all the character is going to care about is staying alive. Afterward, show how the adrenaline drains out of his/her body (which usually produces shakes), and of how utterly emotionally bereft the character feels in the face of wholesale carnage. Read depictions of such scenes in other books. Study them to see what works. I hope this helps, and good luck with your scene!
What should a male writer keep in mind when writing a female character?
There are some good answers here. The best insight is that the character comes first, then gender. But here are some gender-specific issues that came immediately to mind. And there are always exceptions, of course.Color and detail. Women in general tend to notice more details, especially color. A man will tell you his sweater is blue or green; a woman will tell you it's teal. And of course men and women generally notice different details. If my husband and I look at a car for 5 seconds, he'll tell you that it's a Mazda 3 and I'll tell you that it looks black at first but it's actually a dark navy blue.I read (and write) in the women's fiction/romance genre, and see women writers tripped up by this all the time. Some guy in the book will describe a woman's dress as coral satin or whatever and I laugh, because I think most men (unless they're artists of some sort) would tell you she's in a shiny orange dress. With plenty of cleavage.Here's a quick exercise to help with this: Have a man and a woman walk into an unfamiliar room in someone's house or office for just a minute or two. Then ask them to describe the room.Problem-solving. Women tend to talk things out. We view talking things out and having someone listen as part of the "solution" to a problem. Men like concrete action. So a woman is telling a man about a problem she's having and he tells her what to do about it. He thinks he's being helpful; she may well think he's being condescending. This would especially be true if she's the hyper-competent, kickass type. She knows what to do, thank you very much, she just wants someone to listen to her while she vents.
Do writers create names for their characters before writing about them?
The first time I decide to write ’something’, was very late at night, using a very old pentium 3 without internet and with a crt monitor. It was about 7 or 8 years ago.So… what do I do? … where do I start?I’m a systems analyst. Also, I study administration, and have many years working as chief of a hardware store, with many people under my lead (Most of them have the interview job with me).I had an idea about what to write, but never have done it before, and after some thinking, I knew it’ll gonna be a mess if not having an ‘attack plan’. So, because of it, I started with a flow chart about everything I’m gonna need to write a novel.I discovered that I’ll need a lot of characters. Also, some serious research about a lot of things I’m gonna need and didn’t know.But, about my characters… First, I started developing a flow chart about how many they will be. Finally, I end with about 20. Then, I created their ‘personalities’, and because of it, their origins.In this origin, I selected names accordingly.For example: A french grandfather, his son and grandson. The grandson is about 15yo, so he needs a modern name: ‘Louie Phillipe’.The son is on his mid-40’s, so he needs a ‘not-so-old-name’, but since their family has a lineage, I repeat the name but change the second: Louie Gaston.And, the grandfather itself, a really old name. Something with history… and he becomes: Louie Gaspar.I need a Japanese old men from Tokio. So, after a research…: Akito Koyama.Also a family’s second name with long tradition in Osaka (Japan): FujiwaraThe same, but from Nagasaki: Kazuki.Now I need a name for a young, almost 18yo girl from Rioja, Spain: Milagros Ariana.A 15yo teenboy from Castilla, Spain: Rafael Adriano.Same age but from Argentina: Juan Carlos Santini.A woman on mid-forties from Germany: Hilda.A 15yo teen girl from France: Carlotta Anais A 15yo teen girl from USA: Jessica Scott.… and so on.—-I research names for each character. Trying to be accurate for everyone, so they can be accepted as a character representing their region.That’s how I do it.PS: If you’re from the region of my name’s choice , tell me what you think.