Rant about word counts and hate comments.

I am one of those writers where I love to celebrate different milestones with my followers. things like a higher word per minute total or doing a writing sprint and getting a higher word count, reaching a certain amount of words in my story or finishing it.

but with that comes the hate. it's quality over quantity. messages saying you won't make it and just trying to bring you down and stop you feeling good about your writing.

one of which inspired this blog post. I was asking questions for my book I am writing about endometriosis and someone slides upon the question and wrote a message telling me to get a real job and that I need to stop being happy about how many words I wrote because they will be all shit anyway.

these messages don't discourage me they make me work harder. I am not one to get down and think about what I'm doing wrong, well I am but when it comes to writing I can get all these feelings out on paper and turn it into something more, something amazing.

for the longest time, I took these messages as this is what I should be doing, by stoping every chapter, every page to rewrite and edit and do all the stuff I do now at the end of the book I stopped loving writing, it was no longer something I love but more of a chore. I got myself into writers' block badly, I left books unfinished because I just couldn't make it perfect and now I fix it at the end. my first draft is getting the story down no matter how good or bad it will be and then going through and fixing it, putting it away for three months and coming back with a clear mind, no longer having my head tell me everything that needs to be done still.

on the getting a 'real' job front it's very complicated, I hate to drop out of high school because of endometriosis and any boss says that I would be unreliable and can't have a job there so I made my writing my job. I have a fiver where I offer to ghostwrite and beta read, write blog posts and even proofread and edit things. I also do freelance gigs, working in a normal 9 to 5 job is impossible for me so I had to find a way to make a job out of something I love and can do and that is writing, that is youtube and that is my business.  whats to say that I am no good at writing and cant to make it a career? I am about to query one of my books to publishing houses and I'm excited for how far I have come in this world of writing.

what I'm getting at is that people are going to hate no matter what and what works for you is what matters not what people think you should be doing, keep your head high and push through it, find a way that works for you and stick to it and the first draft is never going to be perfect no matter how hard you try that's what editing and proofreading are for.

How to come up with character names + 100 names

it can be very hard to come up with names for your book characters, i spend hours per name trying to find the right name on baby name sites and generators. so i have come up with a quick list of ways to come up with character names as well as well as listed 50 female and 50 male names (and names that can be used for both) remember you can always mix names together to make new names altogether 

1. try to avoid using names starting with the same letter to ease confusion
2. look through baby name websites 
3. search for a name relating to your characters traits and country of origin
4. consider the era your character lives in. you wouldn't find the name apple over in France in the 1600s but you might have found someone with the name Nicolas

now that you have that to consider i will go onto my list of 50 female names and 50 males names, some can be used for both genders. 

Female

1- Mei

2- Dolly

3- Bethany

4- Cher

5- Demi

6- Ruby

7- Poppy

8- Summer

9- Indie

10- Sienna 

11- Emma 

12- Paige 

13- Rachael

14- Savannah

15- Chole

16- Bonnie

17- Tianna 

18- Fleur 

19- Kimmy

20- Claudia 

21- Elizabeth

22- Abagail

23- Rebecca 

24- Aira

25- Aleisha

26- Hannah

27- Ashley

28- Olivia

29- Charlotte

30- Mia

31- Amelia

32- Sophia

33- Ashley

34- Victoria

35- Isabella

36- Alleah

37- Camila

38- Taina

39- Ella

40- Amber

41- Nefertari

42- Shukura

43- Athalia

44- Beata

45- Cyra

46- Avery 

47- Chelsea

48- Teresia

49- Alyssa

50- Tracey

Male

1- Arlo
2- Joe
3- Casper
4- Lee
5- Joey
6- Shawn
7- Alfie
8- Shane
9- Jack
10-  Nathon
11- Alex
12- Willie
13- Sam
14- Hamish
15- Blake
16- Quin
17- Bruin
18- George
19- William
20- John
21- Nathaniel
22- Connor
23- Jaden
24- Patrick
25- Jacob
26- Xander
27- Parker
28- Riley
29- Jordon 
30- Felix
31- Ben
32- Phenix 
33- Arron 
34- Skyler
35- Apollo
36- Cato
37- Morgan 
38- Homer
39- River
40- Adam
41- Harley
42- Julius
43- Jake
44- Ethan
45- Aiden
46- David
47- Luke
48- Asher
49- Sage
50- Angel