Naming Characters
Hello...
This question is for any of you who write works of fiction, whether here on HP, or as books, novellas, or short stories in any other media.
How do you come up with your character's surnames? Telephone books? News articles? Other books? Made from whole cloth out of your own imaginations?
This inquiring mind wants to know....
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