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Whitney Moore
Hard to Name Characters

I have a character I called Earpiece Guy in my script but he has since established quite the relationship with the main female character and I still can't seem to come up with a good name for him. So I guess they will just have to be Mr. and Mrs. Earpiece Guy.

Anybody have any tricks for naming hard-to-name characters?

Steve Cleary

Stu

Lucas Ehrenhaus

The habit of watching movies and series prompts to also reading through cast lists, I love coming up with names, and one amazing source of inspiration is reading the names of all these extraordinary p...

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Anthony Murphy

Earl Pearce

Jim Boston

Whitney, I like to go to "The World Almanac," sports yearbooks, and even the Bible when I want to give handles to hard-to-name characters. (The Book helped me when I was trying to name some characters...

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Jill Godley

There are fun name generator sites, sometimes they spit out something good.

So Thrilled!

I am not the best at promoting myself but I am trying to get better at sharing the good news (it's so much easier to vent, isn't it?). It's been a long journey with this script, and getting back into writing in general, so I am so honored that my pilot made it to the finals of Stage 32's Diversity S...

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Alejandro Marello

congratulation!!!

Angela Cristantello

Christina, this is WONDERFUL wonderful news, I'm so thrilled for you!!!

I'm not sure if you've met my colleague Taylor Baker yet, but she's the queen of our Stage 32 blog. I know that she'd be thrilll...

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Jason Mirch

Congratulations Christina Brandon-Gómez! The entire Stage 32 team and I are so proud of your efforts. And now your logline and bio are going to be blasted far and wide for the executives in our networ...

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Maurice Vaughan

And Taylor has a great baking show on YouTube.

Angela Cristantello

Yes she sure does, Maurice!

Mark Palmer
Double Trouble!

So this just happened…got the email a few minutes ago after receiving my first Stage32 short script coverage…I am completely speechless!

I will enjoy this moment…and come back down to earth on Monday!

Have a great weekend everyone…I know I will!

Thank you Stage32.

M

Lewis Martin Soucy

Champagne!!!

Jack Binder

Congrats!!

Mark Palmer

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments and support.

Volker Boelsch

Schnaps und Bier!

MJ Brewer

You've got to be absolutely thrilled! What a fantastic way to start 2022.

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