A Gentleman's Domain: THURSDAY THIRTEEN #7

My Recent Reads

A Prison Diary, Volume II by Jeffrey Archer (2003)
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian (2009)
The Headhunters by Peter Lovesey (2008)
The Special Murders by Arthur Douglas (1974)
Domino Island by Desmond Bagley (1972)

May 17, 2007

THURSDAY THIRTEEN #7

Thirteen names that I made up, or at least I think I did, for characters in my first two novels.

I like to give my characters distinctive names and these are ones that just came to me. I haven’t checked in phone books or any other reference sources, but as far as I know these names, at least most of them, are original.

1 Elijah Hakesley

2 Eleanor Gaxworth

3 Lennie Mule

4 Ada Pasgel

5 Bert Giddington

6 Ædgar Shelving

7 Reg Goatbank

8 Michael Wintergrass

9 Jeremiah Bubb

10 Fred Quill

11 Timothy Quergham

12 Les Mosterby

13 Finbar Drift

Posted at 12:22 AM in Thursday Thirteen | Permalink

Tags: character names, novels, The Story Of Elijah, Where Is The Number?

Comments

Hey - you're good with this name thing! All very 'charactery' names -- like I can see their personalities. (sorry, it's late and I'm not very good at communicating thoughts after midnight!)

Posted by: Wylie Kinson | May 17, 2007 at 12:48 AM

They are far more imaginative than any of mine!

Posted by: Miss Understood | May 17, 2007 at 04:07 AM

Great list of names! Somehow, Michael Wintergrass appeals to me. Don't ask me why! ;-)
My TT lists 13 favourite detectives (books).

Posted by: Tink | May 17, 2007 at 05:09 AM

My fave is Michael Wintergrass too just sounds so commanding like you'd see it on a CEO's nameplate .. :) Thanks for stopping by, and it's good to know that Nessie real or imagined is protected!

Posted by: Sue | May 17, 2007 at 08:55 AM

Great list of names, very imaginative. I'm very good with first names for my characters, but haven't gotten the last names figured out yet. My favourite: Lennie Mule.

Posted by: Christine | May 17, 2007 at 09:50 AM

I like Ada Pasgel...but they are all very imaginative names!!
happy TT :)

Posted by: mar | May 17, 2007 at 02:07 PM

Wonderful list of names. They all have a nice ring to them. My favorite is Ada Pasgel and Finbar Drift.

Posted by: Lady G~ | May 17, 2007 at 02:36 PM

I like Finbar Drift. He sounds like a shyster lawyer, or maybe an old shyster judge.

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Posted by: The Gal Herself | May 17, 2007 at 03:40 PM

Wow, what nifty character names! I, too, like unusual names. And what a superduper idea for a TT -- I'll have to do something similar one of these weeks.

Happy Thursday to you! :)

Posted by: Thomma Lyn | May 17, 2007 at 06:53 PM

GREAT NAMES! I imagine thinking up names for novel characters is tough! These are very natural sounding. Great work!

Posted by: Haley-O | May 17, 2007 at 10:55 PM

I like Michael Wintergrass and Ada Pasgel. You're very good with names :-)

Posted by: Sophisticated Writer | May 20, 2007 at 12:20 PM

I love Lennie and Finbar. Great Names! I have a Mark Danbury, Margaret Pennington, and Douglas O'Reilly. It's already been noted that both H and h have M names. Doug is a D name as is Danbury and I had to include a tiny little old lady named Dot. Hmmm, I should work on this! LOL Oh, I do have a Cameron Hawthorne, though. But I got help with that one. Take it easy.

Posted by: Bethanne | May 01, 2008 at 08:09 PM

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