A Gentleman's Domain: THURSDAY THIRTEEN #7

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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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