The topic at Story Empire today is naming our characters. Come join the conversations.
Hi SE’rs, Joan here. Happy first day of March. The Story Empire authors are expanding our blogging schedule to Mondays and Wednesdays along with a Friday share thread. I’m the first to post on Wednesday. Today, I want to talk about character names.
A couple of months ago, while outlining my current WIP, I said to my husband, “I need a name for my antagonist.”
He was quick to respond. “How about Damien?”
Immediately I thought of The Omen. “He’s a bad guy not a child of the devil.” Needless to say, I chose something else.
A few days later, after having thought about it, I decided to look up the meaning of Damien. Turns out, it is of Greek origin, derived from the word Damianos, which is from the word damazo and means “to tame.”
Saint Damian and his twin brother Cosmo were martyred in the early fourth century…
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