Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this idea for a while now, and I finally decided to just dive in and see what I could come up with. The whole thing was about coming up with some cool names for a tennis team. You know, something catchy, something that really sticks.
First off, I started by just brainstorming whatever came to mind. I mean, I wrote down everything, even the really dumb ones. You gotta get all the bad ideas out, right? I had like two pages full of names, most of them were pretty awful, but there were a few that had some potential.
Then, I started looking around online to see what other people had come up with. I figured there had to be some good stuff out there. I hit up a few forums and blogs, and yeah, there were some interesting ideas. Nothing that really grabbed me, but it gave me some more stuff to think about.
- I tried using some online name generators, but those were mostly a joke. I mean, “2bof 2bthe” “2bthird 2beye”? Seriously? It’s like they just threw random words together.
- After that, I decided to get a little more organized. I made a list of words that I thought sounded cool or were related to tennis in some way. Then I started mixing and matching them, trying to find combinations that worked.
I spent a few days on this, on and off. I’d jot down some ideas whenever they came to me, like when I was making coffee or taking a shower. You know how it is, your best ideas always come to you when you’re not actually trying.
Finally!
I narrowed it down to a handful of names that I thought were pretty decent. I bounced them off a couple of friends, got some feedback. That was helpful, ’cause sometimes you get so caught up in your own head that you can’t really tell what’s good anymore.
Anyway, after all that, I think I finally came up with a few that I’m happy with. They’re not perfect, but they’re a lot better than what I started with. It was a fun little project, and it definitely got my creative juices flowing. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime with a different theme. Who knows, maybe I’ll even start a real tennis team just to use one of these names!
That’s it. That’s my process.