discordantwords

So a kinkmeme prompt caught my eye, and now I'm well into working on and outlining a new fic. It's a casefic, where grooms are being murdered at weddings, and Sherlock asks Janine to assist him by staging a full-on courtship and fake wedding as a sting operation, much to John's consternation.

I'm having a ton of fun plotting it out, and using every available opportunity to make John jealous af. But I keep running into the same problem that I always do when I try to write casefics, which is that I HATE NAMING CHARACTERS.

I hate it. I really hate it. And because this fic has a list of victims (and victims' unfortunate spouses, and various suspects, etc. etc. etc.) there are, by necessity, going to be a whole bunch of names I have to make up. If I were adapting an ACD case, I'd borrow some names from canon, but it doesn't really fit here.

How in the world does one come up with all of these names? Do I just... spin a wheel and match first names to last? It's a silly thing to be driving me nuts, but it's driving me nuts.