Step Three

Character Creation
My most favored part of the process. I think that can be attributed to the fact that I'm a D&D geek, and I like my characters to have depth and a background, and a name that means something.
So you have a general idea for your story. Mine being demon/devil hunters who drive around in a double-decker bus in a world all my own. Trust me, I've had weirder thoughts. Now, to help develop your story the first thing you'll need are characters. They can be male, female, elderly, college age, fully grown, or as my creative writing teacher once called children, literary furniture, or even aliens. Whatever you chose. There are of course team dynamics to this as well, but that will come later.
I shall use my own character, hm...I think I'll use Ge, no I think I'll stick with Lenka for this. Olenka is her full first name. Now the bare bones concept of her is 'the slutty blond bombshell'. Of course I plann to develop her passed that. Now the image in my head was a gun slinger kind of character. At the point I had thought of her I ran into a problem, I already had a gunslinging character for this particular tale, so I thought. Then I realized, I didn't have a 'Heavy'. Someone who has the 'big guns' in their possession. This instantly placed Lenka in a group known has "Gun Bunnies". Now if you are not familiar with this term, I'd suggest googling it with the safety on. Mind you during this whole time I didn't have a name for her. What I knew I ended up with was a blond haired girl, who isn't afraid to use her sexuality to get what she wants, and is packing sever amounts of heat. There is more to here of course, but that will be revealed all in good time my friends.
Now, from here, if you have only one main character, or seven, any which way, you need to name your character. Now names can come from anywhere. Cultures, history, fancy, if you can't think of any, babyname sites are great for this.
My personally favorite: http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/
This not only will allow you to select cultures and languages to pick from, it will give you meaning of the names if the site knows them. It's been pretty good about it for me personally.
So once you have your name(s), your should be about ready to get set for the next step; Team Dynamic (5 Man Band).