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Poor Imp wrote:Film credits have the best length of odd surnames if you sit around to watch. ^_^
Claudette wrote:I totally and entirely agree with Green River! Last names are not needed.
But, While planning my novel in October, I found it helpful for me to give my characters last names because I could then know where they were from more specifically, even though it never came up in my story.
Sometimes the last names were randomly chosen, ex: Diedrick Strauss. Sometimes I made last names and hid stuff in them, ex: Sasha Nabokovna Yenovich. (I hid 'Nabokov' as in Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita) I hid things in names to honor those people I like. Sometimes I make wild connections, like Adrian's last name (which I can't remember right now...) was the maiden name of Oscar Wilde's wife. Which I didn't completely like though, which is why I probably forgot it.
So, as you can already tell, I'm really random with last names. Sometimes they come out of no where, and other times they don't. Last names are best, I think, when they give the character a sort of...spice. like Strauss makes me think of Germany so Diedrick reminds me of Germany.
You can google for last names: "German Surnames", "French Surnames" I like this site: http://www.last-names.net/ (Look at the left side menu)
That was a lot I just said...oh well, I hope it helped you!
Snoink wrote:I hate naming my characters... especially their last names! I don't know. I don't think of last names being particularly revealing, but I know lots of people who can tell what country or ethnicity the person is from, just by their last name, and I don't like that at all. It's too stereotypical!
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