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Needing a name
Love active LGC people. I just started a story about Laila Bullaney going to Italy to learn her Bollani heritage. 50 words in. I've also got a waitress named Aimee. With the exception of knowing Laila and her family are part Italian (and native Italians she'll meet), I'm thinking this particular work will have color blind character descriptions. I don't have a face with ethnic features that her fiancé's name has to somehow match. I just know he is a lawyer with a bit of an Oreo problem. His name? It can be seriously anything. Absolutely all ideas welcome. I need a first and last name for him. It's just kind of urgent because I can't write the next sentence without his name. (In case anyone's wondering, I'm probably going to just set up the premise and then set this aside for at least several years until I'm rich enough to take a trip to Italy. I just sometimes get these people in my head that need to journey home to the page.)




Ethanael Hamilton. Washington Carter. Jean-Loup Azèma. David Salazar. Aklan Sefi.
I like the sound of Diègo Fontana, Or Luciano Montoya
Ahhh I can't hear the name Montoya without thinking of Inigo Montoya, but I'll keep this in a little list of possibilities!
I also like the name Auditore, bu only because of Ezio.
If he must sound distinguished give him a last name as first name. Like I dunno... Walton. Jefferson.
By the by, my new neighbours have a tantrummy toddler they have named... CANADA. So periodically, I hear screaming and wailing, and then an adult voice will shout: now Canada! What did I say before? You stop that, right this minute! It's pretty funny.
So perhaps (with toddler as nation state in mind) take a name from here, anywhere, and see how it sounds to say aloud while intoning different emotions. Can your protagonist shout his name without sounding dipsy?
Matteo Giammusso
...or if he's not Italian, Robin Ferlinghetti. Oh wait - that's Italian. Jim Irishblood. The door opened. It was the black-clad figure of James Irishblood. "You can call me Jim," he said, but his eyes forbade this.
Where is lawyer boy from?
Literally could be anywhere. They live in the United States. He could be a first gen immigrant or George Washington's whitest white descendant. I just am at a brain space where I can't pull a name out of thin air anymore. I want it to be something that's weird to me, outside of familiar categories.
Ah okay.
Ryan Lawrence
Such an every man name. Hehe
Leonard d'Abruzzi
Jamie Washington