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So, a few more things about the play I'll be writing in June. So far, I'm busy getting the characters and the setting togther.

The concept for the play is that five writers who attend UC Berkeley meet for the first time when they all end up in the same application-based creative writing class. They're all very different people, and the play is about their interactions and how they learn from each other. But for this all to work out, I need to have five believable characters. I'm starting to get a feel for them, but one thing that I really need is names. None of the characters are intended to be from a particular racial background, so names based in any nationality or language are acceptable. I almost want to make it so that anyone could play any character, regardless of race -- so far, race isn't important to my story. What's more important is the genres that these students write in.

This is the information I know about everyone so far:

Name:
Gender: Male
Age/Grade: 21 years old; junior
Major: English
Occupation:
Genre: Romance (think Nicholas Sparks)
Style: novels and short stories
Publication Status: has published a few romance novels as a ghostwriter, using a female pseudonym
Favorite Authors: Nicholas Sparks
Personality:

Name:
Gender: Female
Age/Grade: 24 years old; in her 5th year of college
Major: English at present; entered as Astronomy, later switched to Sociology, then switched to English
Occupation: variable--she doesn’t seem to be able to keep jobs very well
Genre: speculative fiction/sci-fi and fantasy
Style: novel
Publication Status: has yet to finish a single novel, though she may have published a few short stories here and there in medium-quality magazines and school publications
Favorite Authors: Anne McCaffrey
Personality: ecclectic and flighty; bursting with ideas, but impatient--wants everything done now

Name:
Gender: Female
Age/Grade: 22 years old; junior
Major: History with Creative Writing minor
Occupation:
Genre: Historical fiction
Style: short stories
Publication Status: has published one short story at least, potentially more; in anthologies rather than in magazines or journals
Favorite Authors:
Personality:

Name:
Gender: Male
Age/Grade: 20 years old; sophomore
Major: Comparative Literature
Occupation:
Genre: autobiographical fiction/descriptive
Style: freeform poetry
Publication Status: published a book of poetry at a very young age, but is having trouble living up to some of his earlier poetry
Favorite Authors: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti
Personality:

Name:
Gender: Male
Age/Grade: 22 years old; senior
Major: Rhetoric
Occupation:
Genre: literary fiction
Style: novel
Publication Status: has finished a novel and is submitting it to publishers, but no one wants to publish it
Favorite Authors:
Personality: very pretentious; thinks he’s better than he is; might come from a well-off family and is probably an only child; he has a certain disdain for other genres of writing, and doesn’t think that “the public” can appreciate really good writing

So...any suggestions? Anything is appreciated, even randomness. The character I have the least info about in my head is the historical fiction writer. I'm still trying to figure out why she writes hist-fic, and how she came to want to be a writer. There's nothing too special about her yet, and that's one thing I'm searching for. I'm confident that I'll find it eventually -- hopefully before June starts!