I've created a list of characters that I add to as I write the chapter outlines, these characters may only be in the book for one chapter but it's useful to have a list of everyone. The problem I'm having is thinking of names for them all, at the moment the central character is pretty much called John Doe. That name sort of fits one of the central ideas of the book but it's far too unoriginal, although I will likely stick with the first name of John.
What I'm doing is giving the characters the same first names as my friends. They don't have anything in common with the characters, I mean, just because the soul sucking she-demon has the same name as my brothers fiance doesn't mean that she... actually that's not the best example. I'm also killing a few of them off so it's been quite fun thinking of interesting ways to do so.
As I said, I'm just writing chapter outlines at the moment and I'm finding the processes interesting. I introduced a small plot element of a Hand of Glory, it was only going to be mentioned once or twice just to explain how the villains got entry to somewhere. A bit later on, I hit a problem, I knew where my characters had to get to but couldn't think of how to get them there. I then remembered the Hand of Glory and realised that that type of thing would probably not be easy to obtain and, by having my characters follow that lead, I could get them where they needed to be. So, that's an example of how something minor that I had introduced early on actually turned out to be quite important in the overall scheme of things.
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