I have trouble with names–especially for minor characters that only show up for a few scenes, but who still need to be named. I’ve used many resources to come up with these generic names, but today I found one that I’ve long ignored:

My spam folder.

Here are some of the gems in the “sender” column:

• Herschel Duarte
• Wentzlaff Daughtry
• Jorg Knickerbacker (my personal favorite)
• Althea Cameron
• Brabazon Matar
• Efren Welch
• Gregorio Ferris
• Golabek Shimsky
• Parag Juchinsky
• Zsolt Haseltine
• Terheggen Ruzbasan
• Fabiano Uziel

Obviously, I need to look in there more. And those are just names culled from the first three pages (I usually let the spam folder auto-clean itself. Now I have a use for those messages!).

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