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You all have a moment one time or another where you have a very awesome story come to mind. You begin to write it all down without any hesitation and when it comes time to introduce your protagonist, your malfunction of writer's block hits and you begin to panic searching name generators just to find a name. But what's the problem? Well sure you have over a 100 names on a list to choose from but you don't like any of them and you refresh the page again, and again, and again, but nothing of relief washes over you and you sit there, staring at your monitor, your keyboard. Just trying to find names for your characters. How does one make memorable names for a story? I've tried countless times to find meaningful names. Sure I came across awesome ones, but they all sound terrible. Why? It's because I don't feel any meaning to them. You can't just slap a labeled name on a character but you also can't magically pull them from the sky. So how do you come about names? I'm not talking about an average name like Ralph, Eric, Benjamin, Sarah, Sally. I'm talking about ones that have unique sounds to them, vowels that roll of your tongue. Names that just sound right and mean everything to that specific story and character. What is your methods? Do you prowl a generator? Mix and match random letters? Pray till one comes to you? Or something else?