Remember the journey into Mordor by the heroic Bingo Baggins? (Of course not, and aren\u2019t you glad?) The naming of characters is a difficult matter, but we will discuss the three main considerations (sound, meaning, and associations) and their applications to genres ranging from contemporary fiction to SF and fantasy, along with pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n Charles Kowalski\u2019s debut thriller, MIND VIRUS<\/a>, won the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers\u2019 Colorado Gold Award, and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Claymore Award and the Adventure Writers\u2019 Grandmaster Award. His first middle-grade novel, SIMON GREY AND THE MARCH OF A HUNDRED GHOSTS<\/a>, was just released by Excalibur Books.<\/p>\n For more information, visit\u00a0charleskowalski.com<\/a> or\u00a0japanwritersconference.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by Tom Baker Novelist and former Aomori Prefecture JET Charles Kowalski, the author of the thrillers “Mind Virus” and “The Devil’s Son,” as well as the new middle-grade novel, “Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts,” will present a workshop on giving names to fictional characters at this year’s Japan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,53,1427,408,6],"tags":[1433,314,1434],"class_list":["post-45024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-japan-writers-conference","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-writers","tag-charles-kowalski","tag-japan-writers-conference","tag-simon-grey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-bIc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45037,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45024\/revisions\/45037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Simon-Grey-189x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Novelist and former Aomori Prefecture JET Charles Kowalski<\/a>, the author of the thrillers “Mind Virus<\/a>” and “The Devil’s Son<\/a>,” as well as the new middle-grade novel, “Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts<\/a>,” will present a workshop on giving names to fictional characters at this year’s Japan Writers Conference<\/a>, happening in Tokyo on Oct. 12-13. Here’s a description of his presentation:<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s In A Name? Tips and traps in character naming
\nCraft workshop<\/h4>\n