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It isn't just one of your holiday games
Oct. 4th, 2012 10:01 amI'm currently engaged in a delicate flirtation with Salvage. For those of you playing along at home, Salvage is my honest-to-Cod SF book. Protobook. Theoretical book. Something.
She's a world-weary cop with a crooked partner and only a few weeks left on the job. She's a betentacled parthenogenic alien scientist who wasn't even supposed to be here today. They fight crime and attempt to avoid diplomatic incidents.
My current problem--besides not having a plot, of course--is that I don't have names for my two MCs. The human cop is just waffling between a few choices, and will settle on one eventually. The alien scientist, on the other hand, completely stumps me. I don't have a naming convention for the aliens.
Should I conlang some names for them? Have them adopt human nicknames when dealing with humans? I want to avoid either Space Elf naming conventions, or anything remotely close to Japanese Aliens (or J'onn J'onzz, for that matter). But they also need names that I--let alone readers--can figure out, and preferably pronounce.
Thoughts, LJ?
She's a world-weary cop with a crooked partner and only a few weeks left on the job. She's a betentacled parthenogenic alien scientist who wasn't even supposed to be here today. They fight crime and attempt to avoid diplomatic incidents.
My current problem--besides not having a plot, of course--is that I don't have names for my two MCs. The human cop is just waffling between a few choices, and will settle on one eventually. The alien scientist, on the other hand, completely stumps me. I don't have a naming convention for the aliens.
Should I conlang some names for them? Have them adopt human nicknames when dealing with humans? I want to avoid either Space Elf naming conventions, or anything remotely close to Japanese Aliens (or J'onn J'onzz, for that matter). But they also need names that I--let alone readers--can figure out, and preferably pronounce.
Thoughts, LJ?
