[stylist] being overwhelmed?

[Barbara Hammel]

In real life, mine look quite alike and I accomplish the sameness by 
dressing them alike.  Their personalities are so different that I use 
clothes along with looks to say they belong together.  I might not be so 
stuck on dressing them alike if I'd found a name to go with Jesse that 
couldn't be shortened.  Yes, James was in the running but could you imagine 
at the park and it's time to go and I said, "Jesse, James, time to go."  Of 
course, they're not typically developing children so it wouldn't have 
mattered now.
So there are lots of things you can do to make your twins belong together or 
set them apart.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:41 PM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] being overwhelmed?

> Hm...  Just a thought:  People often confuse twins because they look so 
> much
> alike.  If your characters are identical twins, keeping the name 
> similarity
> might be a subtle way to reinforce that aspect of twinship for the reader?
>
> I guess is depends on what you want to accomplish through the twins.  It's
> an interesting dilemma.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of helene ryles
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:21 PM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] being overwhelmed?
>
> Yes, Zohara and Zahira are twins. Do you think their names should be
> slightly more differant?
>
> Helene
>
> On 23/04/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
>> Here's another problem.   Are they twins?   Their names are so close that
>> the reader will get confused, especially the sighted reader, as most
> sighted
>> people read whole words, not letter by letter.   (This is probably the
> same
>> for the Braille reader).
>> Lori
>>
>> In a message dated 4/20/09 10:56:49 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Zohara and Zahira live in an environment with a high number of deaf
>>> people.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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