A little Scrivener squee...

[cairistiona]

It has a name generator.

*dies*

Coming up with names is one of the hardest challenges for me.  I have so many OCs that I spend literally hours googling and looking at Tolkien's examples and poring over baby name lists.  But I came up with a name for a Bree merchant in about 5 minutes with this fancy-schmancy name generator tool.

Oh heaven.

Comments

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Yay! :)))

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful! (As you could tell from my little squee. *g*)

[suzll.livejournal.com]

WAIT. SCRIVENER HAS A NAME GENERATOR. WHAT WHAT WHAAAAT.

This is what I get for not sitting through the whole tutorial I guess, lol :P.

I was actually just about to go back and comment on your other post re: the exports; I definitely had trouble with that, but my trouble stemmed from not being able to get the footnotes formatted properly whenever the doc was exported. Since I'm assuming you're working with non-footnotey works, hopefully that won't be an issue! :D

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yes!! It's under "tools". And it's awesome. It has not only lots of different name origins (English, German, etc etc etc including a lot of obscure stuff... haven't seen if there's any Elvish...) but it also will let you find a name by its meaning. I swear, that's worth $40 right there.

I've heard people complaining about the exporting and that they just resign themselves to doing the final "clean up" on a word processor. I guess Scrivener is more for the "drafting" stage of writing than for the final presentation, but it'd be nice if they could work out whatever it needs to be a complete start-to-finish application. I did notice that if I had files that I'd originally started in an old version of WordPerfect, then continued on Word, it wouldn't import them, even when I copy/pasted them into WordPad to strip the code. I guess there was just too much embedded oddball code. But straight-up Word files imported just fine. So a few little bugs but not enough to put me off buying so far.

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

SQUEEE!!!1!!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I know!!!! *still squeeful*

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

It seems this is going to be a case of love at first sight. *g*

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

So far it is, at any rate!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Finding names takes me forever too, especially names for women.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I don't have as many female characters but it seems to take just as long to find women's names as men's for me. It's just a tedious slog sometimes.

[galantha-nivala.livejournal.com]

It has a good, built in name generator?

That alone could make it worth shelling out the money.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

It looks pretty good to me so far. I've found one name, at least, using it. :) And yes, it's built in... and it will let you choose one or all the names on the lists it generates and save them for future reference, added to the "research" tab where you can also keep your own notes or websites or media files etc that you can open alongside your draft.